Flimsy

Definition: Flimsy

Flimsy

Adjective

1. Lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past".

2. Having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot".

3. Very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses".

4. Resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls".

Noun

1. A thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flimsy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Flimsy

Rarity

Adjective: rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light; cavernous, spongy. (hollow).

Reasoning,

Weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.

Softness

Yielding. Verb: flabby, limp, flimsy.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Weakness

Frail, fragile, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering; Verb:.

Crosswords: Flimsy

That's pretty flimsy proof (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin')

Yeah, well that's pretty flimsy evidence (City of Angels; writing credit: Wim Wenders; Peter Handke)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Political Economy

Zimbabwe

The GOZ also has raided the MDC's offices, detained for questioning most of the party's top leadership, and filed flimsy charges against MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and Vice-President Gibson Sibanda. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "flimsy": flimsy-looking.

Ending with "flimsy": all-too-flimsy.

Albanian

numër i gazetës, letër e hollë (india paper, onionskin), lajm (item, message, news, notice, piece of news, word), joserioz (light), jobindës (inconclusive, unconvincing), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهلهل (dilapidated, lax, rocky, scruffy, sleazy, slight, slim, thin, tumbledown), ‏مرهف (delicate, fine, sensitive, slender), ‏قابل للكسر (breakable, fragile), ‏واه (slight, weak), ‏ورق رقيق (sensitive paper, tissue paper), ‏غير جيد (no good), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), ‏ردئ النوع (cheap, leaden, shabby, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), крехък (brittle, delicate, egg shell, fragile, frail, lean, slender, slight, tender), несолиден (jerry-build, ramshackle, unsubstantial), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), банкнота (bank note, bill, greenback, note, rag), повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty), пелюр, паянтов (frame-build, jerry-build, pasteboard, ramshackle). (various references)

Chinese 

脆弱 (fragility, frailties, frailty, Vulnerable). (various references)

Czech

prùklepový papír (carbon paper), křehký (breakable, brittle, crisp, crunchy, delicate, fragile, frail, frangible, inconstant, lissom, shattery, tender, weak). (various references)

Danish

kopipapir (flimsy paper). (various references)

Dutch

doorslagpapier (copying paper, flimsy paper, manifold, manifold paper). (various references)

Finnish

hatara (loose, poorly constructed, ramshackle, unsubstantial, vague). (various references)

French

mince, mauvais. (various references)

German

schwache (fecklessly, feebly, languidly), schwach (brittle, dim, dimly, docile, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, flimsily, fragile, frail, impotent, infirm, infirmly, lame, languid, light, low, obscurely, poor, sinewed, slack, slender, slight, slightly, soft, thinly, uncertain, unsound, weak, weakly, wishy washy). (various references)

Greek 

φτωχός (impoverished, poor), εύθραστος (fragile, frail), λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, gossamery, lank, nice, rangy, refined, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish), λεπτός (delicate, slender, subtle, tenuous, thin), αραχνοΰφαντοσ, αδύνατοσ (feeble, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, washy, weak). (various references)

Hebrew 

שביר (breakable, brittle, fragile, frail, tender), קלוש (rare, scanty, sparse, tenuous, weak), �"קיק (fine, tenuous, very thin), �"ק (delicate, fine, lean, slender, slight, slim, spindly, thin), רופף (precarious, ramshackle, rickety, shaky, unstable, wonky), � יר �"ק. (various references)

Hungarian

vékony (attenuate, fine, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, sheer, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, thin, thinner, wispy), selyempapír (tissue, tissue paper), másolópapír (carbon, onion-skin), könnyű (accommodating, as easy as shelling peas, cushy, effortless, facile, filmy, floaty, glib, light, lightweight, mild, pad, popover, potty, slight), gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, dim, extenuate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly), gyarló (fallible, feckless, feeble, frail, unworthy, vile). (various references)

Italian

frivolo (flippant, frivolous, light minded, nugatory, shallow, trifling), fragile (breakable, brittle, feeble, fragile, frail, frangible, rattly, short), debole (dim, failing, faint, feeble, frail, gone, helpless, impotent, infirm, light, nerveless, pale, powerless, strengthless, tenuous, unsound, weak, weak point, weakly). (various references)

Korean 

천박한. (various references)

Manx

thanney (attenuated, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), feiosagh (fragile, frail, lithe, slender, thin, thin in build, weak, weakling, weed, weed of person, weedy). (various references)

Norwegian

spinkel. (various references)

Pig Latin

imsyflay.(various references)

Portuguese

frívolo (baubling, conceited, cork, corky, footling, frivolous, futile, giddy, impulsive, light, light-headed, lightsome, nugatory, rattle-brained, shallow, trifling, vain), fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy), superficial (aboveground, above-ground, amateurish, flashy, flippant, frothy, lip-deep, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin-deep, superficial, trivial), pouco sólido (insecure, unsound, unsure), papel fino, inconsistente (inconsistent), banal (banal, characterless, common, commonplace, dismal, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosaic, prosy, quotidian, ready-made, stale, trifling, trite, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant, unoriginal, vulgar). (various references)

Romanian

frivol (Corky, fast, feather-brained, flippant, frail, frivolous, giddy, shallow, unbecoming), foiţã (lamina), van (abortive, futile, idle, nugatory, useless, vain, vainglorious), transparent (clear, fine-spun, gauzy, glasslike, glassy, hyaloid, lucent, pellucid, perspicuous, thin, translucent, transparent), superficial (cursory, external, facile, flippant, gossamer, passing, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, slight, sublime, superficial, superficially, thin, tinsel, trivial, yeasty), subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), nejustificat (indefensible, inexcusably, unjustified), neîntemeiat (baseless, conjectural, gratuitously, groundless, idle, insubstantial, unfounded, ungrounded), inconsistent (flabby, groundless, insubstantial, soft, unsubstantial), hârtie subţire (onion skin), bancnotã (bank, bank note, banknote, bill, greenbacks, note), şubred (delicate, disorderly, feeble, frail, insecure, ramshackle, rocky, shaky, unstable, weak). (various references)

Russian 

непрочный (built on sand, frail, groggy, haywire, insubstantial, perishable, rotten, sleazy, unsubstantial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pelir (onionskin), oronuo (decrepit, feeble, lapsed, ramshackle), klimav (loose, niddle-noddle, rickety, rocky, shaky, wobbly, wonky). (various references)

Spanish

papel de copiar, muy delgado, endeble (feeble, puny, weak, weakly, wimp), delgado (delicate, fine, slenderly built, slight, slim, spidery, thin, trickle), débil (bad, dud, faint, feeble, ill, infirm, lame duck, light, weak). (various references)

Swedish

ytlig (airy, flashy, idleheaded, shallow, skin deep, superfical, superficial, yeasty), tunn (fine, gaunt, lean, light, rare, sheer, sleazy, slender, tenuous, thin, wispy), bräcklig (breakable, brittle, fragile, frail, frangible, infirm, unsound). (various references)

Thai

ไม่แข็งแรง, ไม่น่าเชื่อถือ, บางและฉีกขา�"ง่าย. (various references)

Turkish

sudan (slight, sorry, Sudan, sudanese, thin, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, watery), pelür (india paper, indian paper, onionskin), kâğıt para (bank note, banknote, bill, flimsies, folding money, note, paper, paper money, rag), ince kopya kâğıdı, inandırıcı olmayan (unconvincing), dayanıksız (not enduring, not fast, stalky, weak), banknot (bank note, banknote, bank-note, bill, flimsies, paper money, treasury certificate, treasury note), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, feeble, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, unsound, wonky). (various references)

Ukrainian

цигарковий папір, крихкий (brash, brittle, eager, fragile, frail, friable, shivery), непереконливий (obscure, weak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhỏ mọn (fiddling, mingy, petty, piffling, potty), nông cạn tầm thường, mỏng mảnh hời hợt, mỏng manh (fine-spun). (various references)

Misspellings

"Flimsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: climsy, Flimby, flimpsy, flimsey, fliny, flmi, flumsy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: films, filmy, slimy.

-2 letters: film, fils, limy, mils, slim, syli.

-3 letters: fil, fly, ifs, ism, lis, mil, mis, sim, sly.

-4 letters: if, is, li, mi, my, si.

+2 letters: emulsify, flimsily, mayflies, simplify.

+3 letters: solemnify, styliform, subfamily.

+4 letters: infamously, manifestly, myofibrils, stepfamily.

+5 letters: emulsifying, misclassify, simplifying, superfamily.