What is the meaning of delicate?

adjective

• Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury.
  • usage: "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"
• Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique.
  • usage: "a surgeon's delicate touch"
• Easily broken or damaged or destroyed.
  • usage: "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"
  • synonyms: fragile, frail
• Easily hurt.
  • usage: "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin"
  • synonyms: soft
• Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety.
  • usage: "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
  • synonyms: finespun
• Difficult to handle; requiring great tact.
  • usage: "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"
  • synonyms: ticklish, touchy
• Of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely.
  • usage: "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"