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