Soft or delicate in texture or consistence; yielding easily to force or pressure; fragile; easily broken, divided, compressed, or injured; of…

Of things: Having little strength; weak, frail, fragile; slight, slender. Of a fortress, etc.: Having little power of resistance. Obsolete.

Of things: Not firm or strong; weak, unsound; esp. unable to resist pressure or weight, giving way easily, frail, ‘shaky’, feeble. Now rare.

Of light, thin, or poor texture or material; not good, strong, or substantial; rather flimsy or weak.

Wanting in material strength, unsound, insecure.

Frail, delicate.

Of an inanimate object: weak, flimsy, trifling; lacking strength, size, or substance. Now Scottish and rare.

Lacking in solidity or firmness.

Having or appearing to have little substance; flimsy, slight; diaphanous. Somewhat rare.

Resembling paper, frail as paper; thin, flimsy, fragile. Now rare.

Lacking in substance or solidity. Also in combinations.

Weak, fragile; unreliable, ineffectual. Obsolete.

Slight, unimportant, trivial; also, unsubstantial, slender, weak.

Wanting in strength or stability. Obsolete.

In physical sense: Destitute of strength or solidity; easily destroyed; slight, frail, unsubstantial.

attributive and in other combinations. Also in senses: (a) resembling a bandbox; flimsy, fragile; (b) conspicuously neat and clean; dressed-up.

Not strengthened or fortified; not yet made firm or sure.

Void of substance; not of stout or solid substance; unsubstantial. Also figurative.

Of the nature of or resembling gossamer; flimsy, unsubstantial; = gossamer, adj.

attributive. Having the attributes of a thread-paper; long and narrow, slender, attenuated; limp, feeble, flimsy.

Of things, both material and immaterial: Light and flimsy as gossamer. Of persons: Frivolous, volatile.

Flimsy, frail.

Incapable of enduring; †impatient of.

Resembling a bandbox in shape, the fragility of its structure, or its restricted accommodation. (Cf. bandboxical, adj.)