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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fragile |
| Synonyms: | breakable, crisp, crumbling, crumbly, delicate, frail, frangible, friable, inelastic, shatterable, shivery, vitreous, weak |
| Antonyms: | durable, flexible, moveable, resilient, supple |
| Main Entry: | breakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily hurt or destroyed |
| Synonyms: | brittle, crisp, crispy, crumbly, delicate, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, shatterable, shattery, splintery, vitreous, weak |
| Antonyms: | durable, sturdy, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | fragile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, dainty |
| Synonyms: | brittle, crisp, crumbly, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fine, flimsy, fracturable, frail, frangible, friable, infirm, insubstantial, shatterable, shivery, slight, unsound, weak, weakly |
| Antonyms: | durable, firm, strong, tough, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frangible, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, shatterable, shattery, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wimpy, wishy-washy, wispy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crumbly |
| Synonyms: | brittle, crisp, crunchy, delicate, fragile, friable |
| Antonyms: | thick |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, inflexible |
| Synonyms: | annealed, arthritic, benumbed, brittle, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical, numbed, ossified, petrified, refractory, resistant, rheumatic, rigid, set, solid, solidified, starched, starchy, stark, steely, stiff as a board, stony, taut, tense, thick, thickened, tight, unbending, unflexible, ungraceful, unsupple, unyielding, wooden |
| Antonyms: | flexible, pliable, pliant, soft |
| Main Entry: | frangible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fragile |
| Synonyms: | breakable, brittle, crumbly, dainty, delicate, feeble, flimsy, frail, friable, weak |
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| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
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Adjectives: |
brachyskelic, brief, commatic, compact, compendious, concise, curt, curtailed of its fair proportion, dumpy, fubsy, improcerous, little, oblate, pug, runtish, scrimp, shorn, short, short by, short-waisted, spuddy, squab, squabbish, squabby, squat, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, summary, thickset, undersized
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