Qualities
Synonyms for fragile
Synonyms for fragile: thin and delicate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for fragile
Interchangeable with fragile in this sense
Audited under fragile's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fragile carries in that sense.
- thinadjective, in the sense "lacking substance or significance"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fragile as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- delicatedelicate is an adjective in the sense "easily broken or damaged or destroyed"
The first group is filed under fragile's own sense. The second reaches fragile from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
lacking substance or significance
A fragile claim to fame.
The true synonym
thin
Same sentence, swapped: A thin claim to fame.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where fragile stands in the sentence above.
- mortal
- unstable
- fugitive
Where fragile turns up in the game
fragile is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where fragile is the trap
- sturdyadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is strong, in the sense "strongly and solidly built, able to withstand rough use", with fragile sitting one tile away.
- vigorousadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is energetic, in the sense "physically strong and full of energy", and fragile is one of the three tiles that lose.
- slightadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is little, in the sense "small in quantity or degree", with fragile sitting one tile away.
- thinadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is lean, in the sense "lacking excess flesh", with fragile sitting one tile away.
Play fragile
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fragile reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company fragile keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
fragile is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.