Crossword-Solution: FRAIL 5 letters, 128 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Frail	n.	A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
Frail	n.	The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
Frail	n.	A rush for weaving baskets.
Frail	superl	Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
Frail	superl	Tender.
Frail	superl	Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
FRAIL	anagram	FILAR, FLAIR, LIFAR

We have 128 clues for the answer “FRAIL”

Clue	Answers
90-year-old rocker, perhaps	1 answer
Basket for packing figs, raisins, etc.	1 answer
Basket for raisins	1 answer
Basket made of rushes.	1 answer
By no means robust	1 answer
Easily destroyed	1 answer
Easily hurt	1 answer
Easily injured	1 answer
Easily knocked over, perhaps	1 answer
Far from sturdy	1 answer
Having delicate health	1 answer
Like a 97-pound weakling	1 answer
Likely to break	1 answer
Made of glass, so to speak	1 answer
Morally weak	1 answer
NIN song for the weak (with "The")?	1 answer
Needing delicate handling	1 answer
Not exactly robust	1 answer
Not strong against temptation.	1 answer
Overly delicate	1 answer
Physically delicate	1 answer
Thin and feeble	1 answer
Very delicate	1 answer
Weak NIN song, with "The"?	1 answer
Weak and delicate	1 answer
Weak or delicate	1 answer
Weak; slight	1 answer
Word that becomes its own synonym when a "g" is added within it and an "e" added at the end of it	1 answer
basket for dried fruit	1 answer
packing basket	1 answer
shatterable	1 answer
Delicate or easily broken	1 answer
Far from robust	2 answers
Hardly robust	2 answers
rush-basket	2 answers
Not sturdy	2 answers
Not very sturdy	2 answers
Easily damaged	2 answers
like parchment	2 answers
Liable to sin.	2 answers
Not very strong	2 answers
Slight of build	2 answers
Liable to Snap	3 answers
physically weak	3 answers
Hardly hale	4 answers
Easy to break.	4 answers
In poor health	5 answers
Not robust	5 answers
fracturable	5 answers
Hardly hardy	6 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EAERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with FRAIL (5)

This would surpass Common revenge, and interrupt his joy In our Confusion, and our Joy upraise In his disturbance; when his darling Sons Hurl’d headlong to partake with us, shall curse Thir frail Originals, and faded bliss, Faded so soon.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like ninepins.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Lorch and her daughter lived half a mile from the Swedish Reform Church, in an old square frame house, with a porch supported by frail pillars, set in a damp yard full of big lilac bushes.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

His falling body came near to tearing me from the frail hold that my single free hand had upon the anchor chain and plunging me with him to the waters of the sea below.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with FRAIL (3)

We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor. Because they never understand us, but they never give up. Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves. Because they come from little boys. Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when i…

Paulo Coelho

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

John Gardner Grendel

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 104 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).