flimsyadjective
uk/ˈflɪm.zi/us/ˈflɪm.zi/flimsy adjective (THIN)
very thin, or easily broken or destroyed:
You won't be warm enough in that flimsy dress.
We spent the night in a flimsy wooden hut.
a flimsy cardboard box
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Fragile and breakable
- breakable
- brittle
- crumbly
- delicacy
- delicate
- dodgy
- fissile
- flaky
- fragile
- frail
- friable
- ramshackle
- rickety
- tenuous
flimsy adjective (DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE)
A flimsy argument, excuse, etc. is weak and difficult to believe:
When I asked him why he was late, he gave me some flimsy excuse about having car trouble.
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Not believable
- belief
- by no stretch (of the imagination) idiom
- fanciful
- far-fetched
- fishy
- hard
- hear
- incredibly
- likely
- miraculous
- pass
- pass (all) belief idiom
- smell fishy idiom
- sth has to be seen to be believed idiom
- unconvincing
- unthinkable
- unthinkable
- untrustworthiness
- untrustworthy
- wash
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flimsily
adverb uk/ˈflɪm.zəl.i/us/ˈflɪm.zəl.i/
flimsiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈflɪm.zi.nəs/us/ˈflɪm.zi.nəs/