flimsy

6 definitions • 11 examples

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

A flimsy argument, excuse, etc. is weak and difficult to believe:

flimsy excuse When I asked him why he was late, he gave me some flimsy excuse about having car trouble.

a very thin piece of paper, especially special paper used in the past when making carbon copies (= copies of documents made with special paper with a layer of carbon or other dark substance):

We typed on carbon flimsies.

He sketches by hand on a piece of tracing paper called a flimsy.

clothes, especially underwear, made from very thin, delicate material:

The success of her underwear range has proved that there was a market for classy flimsies.

The paintings showed girls in their flimsies.

(of material) very thin, or (of a structure or object) badly made and weak, and therefore easily broken or destroyed:

a flimsy dress

a flimsy building

Flimsy also means weak and not persuasive:

They convicted the defendant on very flimsy evidence.