delicate

Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.

Those clothes are made from delicate lace.

The negotiations were very delicate.

Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.

Her face was delicate.

The spider wove a delicate web.

Intended for use with fragile items.

Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.

Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.

delicate behaviour

delicate attentions

Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.

a delicate child

delicate health

A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.

Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate!

A choice dainty; a delicacy.

With Abstinence all Delicates he Sees, / And can regale himself with Toast and Cheese.

A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

A council of war was called, and the delicates met in the great cabin ; the platform was rigged up on the forecastle, the yard-rope rove, and the signal made for all boats to attend execution

If Lucullus were not a waster and a delicate given to belly-cheare.

A moth of the species Mythimna vitellina.