Flimsy Synonyms and Antonyms

flĭmzē
Having little substance or significance; not solidly based
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. feeble
  2. insubstantial
  3. tenuous
  4. unsubstantial
A thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. diaphaneity
  2. ethereality
  3. onionskin
  4. flimsiness
  5. tenuity
  6. tenuousness
  7. unsubstantiality
Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fragile

Words Related to Flimsy

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Flimsy Sentence Examples

  • Snow crunched under her feet and quickly soaked her flimsy slippers.

  • The blade bolts are too flimsy or instead they've used rivets.

  • Others, like the blood type diet, are pretty flimsy.

  • She wrote a little piece which Comte rated so pre- v posterously as to talk about George Sand in the same sentence; it is in truth a flimsy performance, though it contains one or two gracious thoughts.

  • The rupture, therefore, took place in the middle of May; and on a flimsy pretext the First Consul ordered the detention in France of all English persons.

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