Frail
adjective
Very weak or easily damaged or destroyed.
The old man was so frail that he needed a walker to move around.
Often appears as...
- frail health
- frail body
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Disapproving
noun
A type of basket, usually made of rushes, for holding fruit or other things.
I packed the strawberries in a frail to take to the picnic.
Often appears as...
- strawberry frail
- fruit frail
adjective
Very weak or easily damaged or destroyed.
The old man was so frail that he needed a walker to move around.
Often appears as...
- frail health
- frail body
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A type of basket, usually made of rushes, for holding fruit or other things.
I packed the strawberries in a frail to take to the picnic.
Often appears as...
- strawberry frail
- fruit frail
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Weakness
Refers to someone's physical strength being low, often due to age or sickness.
After her surgery, she was too frail to even lift a book.
Pro Tip 2/3Easily Broken
Used for objects that can be easily damaged, highlighting their vulnerability.
The frail branches snapped under the weight of the snow.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Physical Objects
Usually not used to describe everyday solid items like phones or furniture which are not weak by nature.
You wouldn't usually describe a smartphone as frail unless highlighting its vulnerability.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Weakness
Refers to someone's physical strength being low, often due to age or sickness.
After her surgery, she was too frail to even lift a book.
Pro Tip 2/3Easily Broken
Used for objects that can be easily damaged, highlighting their vulnerability.
The frail branches snapped under the weight of the snow.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Physical Objects
Usually not used to describe everyday solid items like phones or furniture which are not weak by nature.
You wouldn't usually describe a smartphone as frail unless highlighting its vulnerability.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Weakness
Refers to someone's physical strength being low, often due to age or sickness.
After her surgery, she was too frail to even lift a book.
Pro Tip 2/3Easily Broken
Used for objects that can be easily damaged, highlighting their vulnerability.
The frail branches snapped under the weight of the snow.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Physical Objects
Usually not used to describe everyday solid items like phones or furniture which are not weak by nature.
You wouldn't usually describe a smartphone as frail unless highlighting its vulnerability.
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The myth of Thor's...
Though the woman looked frail, Thor couldn’t overpower her and grew weaker the longer he struggled, until he was brought to one knee. The three companions prepared to leave, disappointed and humbled. But as the king escorted them out, he revealed that nothing in the castle had been what it seemed.
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Let's talk about dying -...
important that we don't just get on this freeway - I see you without thinking hard about whether or not that's where we're all want to end up particularly as become older and increasingly frail and ICU has less and less and less to offer us there has to be a little side road off there for
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A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
It's not just about life, of course -- it's about healthy life, you know -- getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun. So really, this is how I would like to describe it. It's a global trance. These are the sorts of unbelievable excuses
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The myth of Narcissus...
Echo wandered to a cave. And gradually, her heart grew heavy and her body frail until all that was left of her was her voice, which the wind carried to vast, empty places. Forever after, it could be heard reverberating through hollow caves and rebounding across lonely clearings.
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Peter Saul: Let's talk...
So here's the I think it's important that we don't just get on this freeway to ICU without thinking hard about whether or not that's where we all want to end up, particularly as we become older and increasingly frail and ICU has less and less and less to offer us.
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The past, present and...
Higher living standards also brought an increase in social mobility, weakening feudalism, and eventually leading to political reforms. But the plague also had an important biological impact. The sudden death of so many of the most frail and vulnerable people
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The mathematician who...
start off with some of these basic building blocks. Now does that mean there's going to be life all around? Maybe. But it's a question of how tortuous this path is from those frail beginnings, those seeds, all the way to life.
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Women's MMA Fighting PIPE...
choose to demonstrate their physical strength have long been labeled unladylike there are some societies that have invested a large amount in convincing women that they are frail helpless and in need of men and for a
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My mother's final wish...
And in order to create a comfortable space for her, we needed to get creative. In the initial stages of her diagnosis, she was mobile with the help of a walker, even though she was frail.
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Snowball Earth? PIPE...
won't start roads are cut off by ice building strain and crumble under deep drifts of snow everything is entombed our frail bodies struggle to survive I think human
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The myth of Thor's...
Though the woman looked frail, Thor couldn’t overpower her and grew weaker the longer he struggled, until he was brought to one knee. The three companions prepared to leave, disappointed and humbled. But as the king escorted them out, he revealed that nothing in the castle had been what it seemed.
Video examples
Let's talk about dying -...
important that we don't just get on this freeway - I see you without thinking hard about whether or not that's where we're all want to end up particularly as become older and increasingly frail and ICU has less and less and less to offer us there has to be a little side road off there for
Video examples
A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
It's not just about life, of course -- it's about healthy life, you know -- getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun. So really, this is how I would like to describe it. It's a global trance. These are the sorts of unbelievable excuses
Video examples
The myth of Narcissus...
Echo wandered to a cave. And gradually, her heart grew heavy and her body frail until all that was left of her was her voice, which the wind carried to vast, empty places. Forever after, it could be heard reverberating through hollow caves and rebounding across lonely clearings.
Video examples
Peter Saul: Let's talk...
So here's the I think it's important that we don't just get on this freeway to ICU without thinking hard about whether or not that's where we all want to end up, particularly as we become older and increasingly frail and ICU has less and less and less to offer us.
Video examples
The past, present and...
Higher living standards also brought an increase in social mobility, weakening feudalism, and eventually leading to political reforms. But the plague also had an important biological impact. The sudden death of so many of the most frail and vulnerable people
Video examples
The mathematician who...
start off with some of these basic building blocks. Now does that mean there's going to be life all around? Maybe. But it's a question of how tortuous this path is from those frail beginnings, those seeds, all the way to life.
Video examples
Women's MMA Fighting PIPE...
choose to demonstrate their physical strength have long been labeled unladylike there are some societies that have invested a large amount in convincing women that they are frail helpless and in need of men and for a
Video examples
My mother's final wish...
And in order to create a comfortable space for her, we needed to get creative. In the initial stages of her diagnosis, she was mobile with the help of a walker, even though she was frail.
Video examples
Snowball Earth? PIPE...
won't start roads are cut off by ice building strain and crumble under deep drifts of snow everything is entombed our frail bodies struggle to survive I think human
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Quote examples
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
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Mike White
Writer
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.
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Elizabeth Warren
American Public Servant
We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.
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Max Lerner
American Journalist
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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David Whyte
English Poet
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
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Joni Eareckson Tada
American Author
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
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Corazon Aquino
Statesman
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
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Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
Quote examples
Mike White
Writer
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Warren
American Public Servant
We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.
Quote examples
Max Lerner
American Journalist
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
Quote examples
Albert Einstein
German Physicist
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Quote examples
David Whyte
English Poet
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
Quote examples
Joni Eareckson Tada
American Author
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
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Corazon Aquino
Statesman
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Quote examples
Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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