Meaning of FLIMSY
| Pronunciation: | | 'flimzee
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- [n] a thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
- [adj] having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
- [adj] lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"
- [adj] resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
- [adj] very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"
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| | Synonyms: | | cardboard, fragile, inferior, light, onionskin, slight, tenuous, thin, weak |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. --Pope.
All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.
--Sheridan.
Syn: Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.
\Flim"sy\, n.
1. Thin or transfer paper.
2. A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]
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