frail
US: /ˈfɹeɪɫ/
UK: /fɹˈeɪl/
UK: /fɹˈeɪl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
frail /freil/
- tính từ
- dễ vỡ; mỏng mảnh
- yếu đuối, ẻo lả
- nhu nhược, bạc nhược, dễ bị cám dỗ
- tạm bợ, mỏng manh
- a frail life: cuộc sống tạm bợ
- frail happiness: hạnh phúc mỏng manh
- không trinh tiết
- danh từ
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) đàn bà, con gái
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) đàn bà, con gái
- danh từ
- làn (đựng nho...)
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective (frailer, frailest)
1 (especially of an old person) physically weak and thin: Mother was becoming too frail to live alone. + his frail hands
2 weak; easily damaged or broken: the frail stems of the flowers + Human nature is frail.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 See fragile.
2 ailing, unwell, ill, sick, sickly, poorly, thin, skinny, slight, puny, scrawny, wasting or fading away, languishing, infirm, feeble; crippled, consumptive, phthisic:
She is too frail to see visitors.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, look, seem | become, get, grow
ADV.
extremely, very | increasingly | rather | mentally, physically
Many old people become mentally frail.
PHRASES
old and frail
She looked old and frail.
Concise English dictionary
frailer|frailestfreɪl
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)
adj.
+physically weak
+having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
+easily broken or damaged or destroyed
