frail

About 2.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
2. adjective Weak; infirm.
3. adjective In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
4. adjective Mentally fragile.
5. adjective Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
6. noun A girl.
7. verb To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
8. noun A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.

Similar words

weakly feeble infirm weak decrepit fragile fallible breakable delicate imperfect

Often followed by

and elderly body as to little old health bark

Word family

frailer frailest frailly frailness frailnesses