flim´si|ness

flim´si|ness
flim|sy «FLIHM zee», adjective, -si|er, -si|est, noun, plural -sies.
–adj.
1. light and thin; slight; frail; without strength; easily broken: »

The tissue paper she used to wrap my present was flimsy and tore off. Muslin is too flimsy to be used for sails. The Great Crash revealed that scores of apparently sound consolidations rested on the flimsiest of foundations (New York Times).

 SYNONYM(S): unsubstantial.
2. lacking seriousness or sense; feeble; shallow; trivial: »

Her excuse was so flimsy that everybody laughed at her.

SYNONYM(S): weak.
–n.
1. a) a thin paper used by reporters. b) a newspaper report on this paper.
2. Slang. a piece of paper money.
╂[probably alteration of film + -sy, as in clumsy
–flim´si|ly, adverb.
–flim´si|ness, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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