He also becomes even more frail and sickly than before. Hip fractures are very dangerous episodes especially for elderly and frail patients. Unlike his father, Sigismund Augustus was more frail and sickly. This neglect extends to all ages, from newborns to medically frail elderly. Somewhat frail to start with, she became emaciated. Mrs. Exposition is Basil's extremely frail and elderly British mother of 92 years. Anorexic is a description of somebody with the stereotypical thin, frail, malnourished appearance. A good example consists of the doublets "frail" and "fragile". The frail Dea becomes ill with grief. Physically, Sasha was frail and short statured. Alexandra Feodorovna was always frail and in poor health. The painting depicts a naked, frail and weak Burns. Nobita is usually foolish, uncoordinated, lazy, dimwitted, weak, frail, childish and bad at sports. Wedgwood may have prematurely abandoned his experiments because of his frail and failing health. Her eldest son was nevertheless in frail health.