flimsy

adj. delicate, thin; frail, fragile; insubstantial; poorly made or constructed

n. thin paper, paper used for copies

Noun
1. a thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
(synonym) onionskin
(hypernym) typewriter paper, typing paper
Adjective
1. lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"
(synonym) fragile
(similar) weak
2. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
(synonym) slight, tenuous, thin
(similar) weak
3. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"
(synonym) light
(similar) thin
4. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
(synonym) cardboard
(similar) inferior

n.
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flimsy adj.
جھر جھرا, پتيل, بودا, جھلي سا, ناپائيدار, کمزور

Synonyms and related words:
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
  

flimsy /flimsy/
tính từ mỏng manh, mỏng mảnh hời hợt, nông cạna flimsy excuse: lời cáo lỗi hời hợt; lý do hời hợta flimsy argument: lý lẽ nông cạn tầm thường, nhỏ mọn danh từ giấy mỏng (các phóng viên hay dùng để viết bài) bài viết trên giấy mỏng (của các phóng viên) (từ lóng) tiền giấy
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