flimsy

flimsy
    adj 1: lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy
           construction"
    2: not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as
       a forced smile" [syn: {unconvincing}, {flimsy}] [ant:
       {convincing}]
    3: lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a
       tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"
       [syn: {flimsy}, {fragile}, {slight}, {tenuous}, {thin}]
    n 1: a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially
         for making carbon copies [syn: {onionskin}, {flimsy}]
    

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