(a.) Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate\; easily destroyed.

breakable brittle brittle as glass capricious changeable cheap-jack cobwebby corruptible crackable crisp crispy crumbly crushable dainty deciduous decrepit delicate delicately weak dying effeminate ephemeral evanescent fading feeble fickle fissile fleeting flimsy flitting fly-by-night flying fracturable frail frangible friable fugacious fugitive gimcrack gimcracky gossamery impermanent impetuous impulsive inconstant infirm insubstantial jerry jerry-built lacerable light lightweight momentary mortal mutable namby-pamby nondurable nonpermanent papery passing pasteboardy perishable puny rickety scissile shaky shatterable shattery shivery short short-lived sissified sleazy slight splintery tacky temporal temporary tenuous thin transient transitive transitory undurable unenduring unsound unstable unsubstantial volatile vulnerable weak weakly wispy womanish