frail

Meanings

Plural: frails

Noun

• the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
• a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
• A girl.
• A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
• The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
• A rush for weaving baskets.
• Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
• Synonym of flail.

Adjective

• physically weak
  • "an invalid's frail body"

Adjective Satellite

• wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
  • "frail humanity"
• easily broken or damaged or destroyed
  • "a frail craft"

Adj

• Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
• Weak; infirm.
• In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
• Mentally fragile.
• Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.

Verb

• To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

Synonyms

delicate, fallible, farasola, flail, fragile, imperfect, weak

Antonyms

robust

Related Words

fractal, fraction, fracture, fragile, fragility, frailty

Anagrams of frail