Flimsy
['flɪmzɪ] or ['flɪmzi]
Definition
(adj.) lacking substance or significance; 'slight evidence'; 'a tenuous argument'; 'a thin plot'; a fragile claim to fame' .
(adj.) lacking solidity or strength; 'a flimsy table'; 'flimsy construction' .
Checker: Sherman--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
(n.) Thin or transfer paper.
(n.) A bank note.
Checker: Lyman
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Slight, thin, unsubstantial, of frail texture.[2]. Weak, feeble, trivial, frivolous, foolish, trifling, light, puerile, shallow, superficial, trashy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gauzy, poor, thin, transparent, trifling, trivial, puerile, inane, slight,superficial, weak, shallow
ANT:Solid, sound, irrefragable, substantial, cogent
Edited by Blair
Definition
adj. thin: without solidity strength or reason: weak.—n. transfer-paper: (slang) a bank-note: reporters' copy written on thin paper.—adv. Flim′sily in a flimsy manner.—n. Flim′siness.
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Examples
- All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is indeed, he continued, as he looked at the flimsy texture and slender fingers, a slight and frail gage for a purpose so deadly! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Compared with the massiveness of the task, these books do indeed seem poetical and scholarly and flimsy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Result: the gate was only a flimsy structure of wood--we would break it down. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In doing this engines were built of such flimsy construction that they soon went to pieces. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are temporary and flimsy subjugations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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