Frail and Scrawny

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Frail adjective - Easily broken.

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Scrawny and frail are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scrawny" instead an adjective "Frail".

Nearby Words: frailty, frailness

Scrawny adjective - Being very thin.

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Frail and scrawny are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Frail" instead an adjective "Scrawny".

He's either small and scrawny, or meek, peace-loving and/or gentle, not heavily armed, lazy or untrained, frail and/or sickly, or unassuming.

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