The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

Literary disjecta membra: The car was blown into thousands of
fragments. I tried to pick up the fragments of my former life.
--v. 3 shatter, splinter, break or split (up), explode,
disintegrate, come or go to pieces, come apart: I picked up the
skull and it fragmented in my fingers.
fragmentary
adj. disconnected, piecemeal, incomplete, scattered,
disjointed, incoherent, sketchy: Accounts of the disaster are
still fragmentary.
fragrance n. fragrancy, scent, aroma, smell, odour, redolence, perfume,
bouquet, balm: The fragrance of orange blossom filled the room.
fragrant adj. aromatic, odorous, redolent, perfumed, balmy, odoriferous,
ambrosial, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling: A fragrant breeze
wafted over the meadow.
frail adj. 1 See fragile. 2 ailing, unwell, ill, sick, sickly,
poorly, thin, skinny, slight, puny, scrawny, wasting or fading
away, languishing, infirm, feeble; crippled, consumptive,
phthisic: She is too frail to see visitors.
frailty n. 1 weakness, infirmity, delicate condition, feebleness,
fragility, delicacy: The doctors are concerned about his
frailty. 2 susceptibility, liability, suggestibility,
impressionability, vulnerability; fallibility, foible, flaw,
defect, imperfection, fault: You just said that to take
advantage of my frailty. Her vanity is her greatest frailty.
frame n. 1 framework, shell, form, skeleton, support, chassis,
framing, structure, fabric, scaffolding, construction: We made
a frame of sticks over which the canvas was stretched. 2
border, casing, case-mounting, mount, edge, edging; setting:
This picture would look best in a gold frame. 3 system, form,
pattern, scheme, schema, plan, order, organization, framework,
structure, construct, construction, arrangement, blueprint,
design, layout, composition, context, make-up, configuration:
The proposed new department does not fit into the present frame
of the company. 4 physique, build, bone structure, body,
skeleton, figure: He has an unusually large frame for a dancer.
5 frame of mind. mood, humour, state, condition, attitude, bent,