flimsy
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.
- Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial: Of clothing: very light and thin.
- Of an argument, explanation, etc.: ill-founded, unconvincing, weak; also, unimportant; paltry, trivial.
- Of a person: lacking depth of character or understanding; frivolous, superficial.
- Of a person, their physical makeup, or their health: delicate, frail.
Noun
- A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.
- Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; (countable) a sheet of such paper.
- A document printed or typed on such paper: A service certificate.
- A document printed or typed on such paper: A banknote; (uncountable) paper money.
- A document printed or typed on such paper: The text to be set into pages of magazines, newspapers, etc.; copy.
- A hexahedral metal container with a capacity of four imperial gallons (about 18 litres) used by the British Army during World War II to hold fuel.
Verb
- To make (something) likely to be easily damaged.
- To type or write (text) on a flimsy (“sheet of thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document”) (noun sense 2).
- To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate.
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