frail
/fɹeɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.28 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
adj
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.
Example Sentences
- "Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day."
- "Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird"
- "Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either."
- "O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids"
- "She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale."
- "There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans."