flimsy

[Flim·sy]

You can describe weak, thin, and fragile things as flimsy. Onion smells are strong, onion skins are flimsy. Blaming onions for making you cry during a sad movie, that's a flimsy excuse, when there are no onions in the theater.

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Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.

Noun
a thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

Adjective S.
having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

Adjective S.
lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"

Adjective S.
resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

Adjective S.
very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

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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.

Flimsy

Flim"sy , a. [Compar. Flimsier ; superl. Flimsiest.] [Cf. W. llumsi naked, bare, empty, slouggish, 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.

Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.

All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.

Syn. -- Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.

Flimsy

Flim"sy, n. 1. Thin or transfer paper. 2. A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]

Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.

Thin or transfer paper.

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