difficult to handle; requiring great tact
easily broken or damaged or destroyed
easily hurt
developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
unpleasantly stern
of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
sharply disagreeable; rigorous
unkind or cruel or uncivil
severe
unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses