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adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin

adj. lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

delicate, fragile, frail

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

weak

adj. deficient in intelligence or mental power; "a weak mind"

flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin

adj. lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

listless

adj. lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"

inert, sluggish, soggy, torpid

adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"

slight, insubstantial

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

inconsiderable

adj. too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"

small, little

adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

feeble, lame

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

faint, feeble

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

feeble, lame

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin

adj. lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

slight, insubstantial

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

delicate, fragile, frail

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

dainty

adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind";

ethereal, gossamer

adj. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

faint, subtle

adj. faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas"

easy, gentle, soft

adj. having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window"

half-hardy

adj. (of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals"

light-handed

adj. having a metaphorically delicate touch; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive"- New Yorker

overdelicate

adj. extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system"

pastel

adj. lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"

tender

adj. (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"

brittle, brickle, brickly

adj. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

crumbly, friable

adj. easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies"

frangible

adj. capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"

splintery, slivery

adj. resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards"

anemic, anaemic

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

breakaway

adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"

faint, feeble

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

feeble, lame

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

slight, insubstantial

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

jerry-built, shoddy

adj. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

little, small

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

namby-pamby, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy

adj. weak in willpower, courage or vitality

pale

adj. not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

wan

adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"

puny

adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"

thin

adj. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"

vulnerable

adj. capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"

washy

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

rugged

adj. sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"

brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy

adj. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

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