frail (n.)
- ailing
- airy
- backsliding
- breakable
- brittle
- cheap-jack
- consumptive
- crisp
- dainty
- dying
- ephemeral
- erring
- fading
- failing
- faint
- fine
- finite
- flimsy
- fly-by-night
- flying
- foible
- frailty
- fugitive
- gimcrack
- gossamer
- human
- ill
- invalid
- invertebrate
- jerry
- lacy
- light
- lightweight
- mortal
- namby-pamby
- pale
- passing
- perishable
- petty
- prodigal
- rare
- recidivist
- sick
- skinny
- slight
- slim
- small
- tellurian
- temporal
- temporary
- thin
- transient
- transitive
- vague
- valetudinarian
- vice
- volatile
- wanton
- weak
frail (adj.)
- abulic
- afraid
- ailing
- airy
- anthropocentric
- anthropological
- attenuate
- attenuated
- boyish
- breakable
- brittle
- cachectic
- capricious
- carnal
- changeable
- cobwebby
- consumptive
- corruptible
- cowardly
- crippled
- crisp
- crispy
- crumbly
- dainty
- debilitated
- deciduous
- decrepit
- delicate
- diaphanous
- diluted
- drained
- dying
- earthy
- effeminate
- enervated
- ephemeral
- erring
- ethereal
- evanescent
- exhausted
- fading
- failing
- faint
- fainthearted
- fallen
- feeble
- feebleminded
- fickle
- fine
- finespun
- finite
- fissile
- fleeting
- fleshly
- flimsy
- fly-by-night
- flying
- fragile
- frangible
- friable
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gauzy
- gimcrack
- girlish
- gossamer
- gracile
- hominal
- homocentric
- human
- humanistic
- ill
- impermanent
- impetuous
- impulsive
- impure
- inconstant
- infirm
- insubstantial
- invalid
- invertebrate
- jerry-built
- lacy
- lapsed
- light
- lightweight
- man-centered
- misty
- momentary
- moribund
- mortal
- mutable
- namby-pamby
- pale
- papery
- passing
- peaked
- peaky
- peccable
- perishable
- petty
- pliable
- poorly
- prodigal
- puny
- rare
- rarefied
- reduced
- run-down
- scrawny
- shivery
- short-lived
- sick
- sickly
- sissified
- skinny
- sleazy
- slender
- slight
- slim
- small
- spineless
- splintery
- subtle
- svelte
- sylphlike
- tacky
- tellurian
- temporal
- temporary
- tenuous
- thin
- thin-bodied
- threadlike
- transient
- transitive
- transitory
- unchaste
- unclean
- ungodly
- unhealthy
- unrighteous
- unsound
- unstable
- unsubstantial
- unwell
- vague
- valetudinarian
- valetudinary
- vice
- volatile
- vulnerable
- wanton
- wasp-waisted
- watered
- watery
- wayward
- weak
- weak-kneed
- weakened
- weakly
- willowy
- wispy
- womanish
Our days begin with trouble here,
Our life is but a span,
And cruel death is always near,
So frail a thing is man.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
