delicate

Adjective
  1. Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing;
    Susceptible to injury (synset 300709335)
    "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"
    also:
    • breakable - capable of being broken or damaged
    • frail - physically weak
    • weak - wanting in physical strength
    tells us about: strength - the property of being physically or mentally strong
    similar to:
  2. Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique (synset 302235089)
    "a surgeon's delicate touch"
    similar to: skilled - having or showing or requiring special skill
  3. Easily broken or damaged or destroyed (synset 300712660)
    "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"
    similar to: breakable - capable of being broken or damaged
    same as: fragile, frail
  4. Easily hurt (synset 302457397)
    "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin"
    similar to: tender, untoughened - physically untoughened
    same as: soft
  5. Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety (synset 301955211)
    "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
    similar to: refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
    same as: finespun
  6. Difficult to handle;
    Requiring great tact (synset 300750606)
    "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"
    similar to: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
    same as: ticklish, touchy
  7. Of an instrument or device;
    Capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely (synset 302111262)
    "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"
    similar to: sensitive - responsive to physical stimuli

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