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Ailing vs Fragile - What's the difference?

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Ailing is a related term of fragile.


As adjectives the difference between ailing and fragile

is that ailing is sickly; sick; ill; unwell while fragile is easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.

As a noun ailing

is an ailment.

As a verb ailing

is .

ailing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ailment.
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
  • Anagrams

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    fragile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.
  • The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
    The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
    He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.

    Synonyms

    * friable * breakly * breakable * destroyable * destructible * See also

    Antonyms

    * durable * unbreakable * undestroyable * indestructible

    Derived terms

    * fragilely