fragile

(s) easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- a kite too delicate to fly safely
- fragile porcelain plates
- fragile old bones
- a frail craft
delicate, frail,
(s) vulnerably delicate
- she has the fragile beauty of youth
(s) lacking substance or significance
- slight evidence
- a tenuous argument
- a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame
slight, flimsy, tenuous, thin,

delicate frail slight flimsy tenuous thin

fragile fern