Flimsy \Flim"sy\, n.
1. Thin or transfer paper.
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2. A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flimsy \Flim"sy\, a. [Compar. Flimsier; superl. Flimsiest.]
[Cf. W. llymsi naked, bare, empty, sluggish, spiritless. Cf.
Limsy.]
Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or
solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without
reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse,
objection.
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Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. --Pope.
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All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.
--Sheridan.
Syn: Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flimsy
adj 1: lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy
construction"; "a fragile link with the past" [syn: fragile]
2: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse";
"slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
[syn: slight, tenuous, thin]
3: very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile";
"light summer dresses" [syn: light]
4: resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments
with cardboard walls" [syn: cardboard]
n : a thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially
for making carbon copies [syn: onionskin]
[also: flimsiest, flimsier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "flimsy":
adulterated, airy, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, boyish,
breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, catchpenny, cheap-jack,
cobwebby, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, cut,
dainty, decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, diaphanous,
dilapidated, dilute, diluted, effeminate, empty, ethereal, fatuous,
feeble, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, fissile, flabby,
flaccid, floppy, foolish, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible,
friable, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous,
gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile,
idle, implausible, improbable, inadequate, inane, inconceivable,
inconclusive, incredible, infirm, insubstantial, jerry,
jerry-built, lacerable, lacy, lax, light, lightweight, limp, loose,
makeshift, misty, namby-pamby, nugacious, nugatory, otiose, paltry,
papery, pasteboardy, poor, puny, ramshackle, rare, rarefied,
relaxed, rickety, rubbery, scissile, shaky, shallow, shatterable,
shattery, sheer, shivery, silly, sissified, sleazy, slender,
slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small,
splintery, subtile, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike, tacky,
tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned,
thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, transparent, trifling, trite,
trivial, unbelievable, uncompact, uncompressed, unconvincing,
unproved, unrigorous, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsubstantial,
unsustained, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, vaporous, vulnerable,
wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weakly, willowy,
windy, wiredrawn, wispy, womanish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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