Does the word flimsy mean?

1a : lacking in physical strength or substance flimsy silks wore a flimsy dress. b : of inferior materials and workmanship flimsy construction. 2 : having little worth or plausibility a flimsy excuse a movie with a flimsy plot. flimsy. noun.

What is flimsy synonym?

insubstantial, slight, light, fragile, breakable, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift. jerry-built, badly built, thrown together, cheap, shoddy, gimcrack. sturdy. 2’the flimsy material of her dress’

What can be flimsy?

You can describe weak, thin, and fragile things as flimsy. Onion smells are strong, onion skins are flimsy. Blaming onions for making you cry during a sad movie, that’s a flimsy excuse, when there are no onions in the theater.

How do you use the word flimsy?

1. She felt cold in her flimsy dress. 2. You won’t be warm enough in that flimsy dress.

What kind of adjective is flimsy?

Thousands live in flimsy huts in the hills surrounding the capital. He was convicted on very flimsy evidence….flimsy ​Definitions and Synonyms.

adjective	flimsy
superlative	flimsiest

What is the synonym of browse?

scan, skim, glance, look, run one’s eye over, have a look at, peruse, give something a once-over, give something the once-over. thumb, leaf, flip, flick, run, dip into. riffle, speed-read.

How did flimsy get its name?

“Flimsy” in its literal sense first appeared in English in the early 18th century, and appears to have been derived from the word “film” in the sense of “thin covering or membrane” (by definition “insubstantial”).

Is Flimsily a word?

flim′si·ly adv. flim′si·ness n. Adv. flimsily – in a weak and flimsy manner; “this car is so flimsily constructed!”

What is a flimsy excuse?

If you describe something such as evidence or an excuse as flimsy, you mean that it is not very good or convincing.