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Pronunciation:
[ flˈɪmzi], [ flˈɪmzi], [ f_l_ˈɪ_m_z_i]
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Similar words for flimsy:
- airy (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- baseless (adjective)
- breakable (adjective)
- decrepit (adjective)
- delicate (adjective)
- diaphanous (adjective)
- disreputable (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- filmy (adjective)
- fine (adjective)
- flaccid (adjective)
- fragile (adjective)
- frail (adjective)
- gossamer (adjective)
- groundless (adjective)
- grungy (adjective)
- hollow (adjective)
- implausible (adjective)
- improbable (adjective)
- incredible (adjective)
- infirm (adjective)
- insubstantial (adjective)
- lame (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- limp (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- nonexistent (adjective)
- not strong; light, thin (adjective)
- one-dimensional (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- piddly (adjective)
- ramshackle (adjective)
- rare (adjective)
- rickety (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- skin-deep (adjective)
- slack (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- soft (adjective)
- standout (adjective)
- superficial (adjective)
- tenuous (adjective)
- thick (adjective)
- thin (adjective)
- trashy (adjective)
- trivial (adjective)
- unbelievable (adjective)
- unconceivable (adjective)
- unconvincing (adjective)
- unfit (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- weightless (adjective)
- wretched (adjective)
- cardboard (noun)
- duplicate (noun)
- flimsy (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- replica (noun)
- reproduction (noun)
- other synonyms
- flimsy
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Flimsy:
adj.
• airy (adjective) • all (adjective) • baseless (adjective) • breakable (adjective)- more fracturable,
- most shatterable,
- more shatterable,
- more shattery,
- most fracturable,
- splintery,
- crispier,
- most shattery,
- crispiest,
- most splintery,
- more splintery.
- more anile,
- more tumble down,
- creakiest,
- un-sounder,
- most quavering,
- most battered,
- un sounder,
- most anile,
- tumble-down,
- be-draggled,
- un-soundest,
- more battered,
- be draggled,
- brokendown,
- un sound,
- most tumble down,
- un soundest,
- tumble down,
- more quavering,
- most tumble-down,
- in capacitated,
- more tumble-down,
- most worn out,
- in-capacitated,
- weather beaten,
- un-sound,
- superannuated.
- more fine-grained,
- more finegrained,
- fainter,
- un healthiest,
- de lightful,
- most hairline,
- de-lightful,
- most gossamery,
- more hairline,
- fine grained,
- un-healthy,
- more muted,
- more recherche,
- most muted,
- most fine grained,
- finegrained,
- un-healthiest,
- un healthier,
- most fine-grained,
- more fine grained,
- more gossamery,
- most finegrained,
- graceful,
- most recherche,
- un-healthier,
- un healthy.
- most chiffon,
- more chiffon,
- trans lucent,
- trans-parent,
- trans parent,
- more cobweblike,
- most cobweblike,
- trans-lucent.
- faint,
- sickly,
- feeble,
- fragile,
- rickety,
- ailing,
- debilitated,
- run down,
- doddering,
- run-down,
- powerless.
- more fine spun,
- threadlike,
- more pulverized,
- fine spun,
- most fine-drawn,
- more finedrawn,
- more quality,
- more powdered,
- most fine drawn,
- more fine-drawn,
- most finedrawn,
- most fine spun,
- most pulverized,
- more fine drawn,
- most powdered,
- more fine-spun,
- Finedrawn,
- most fine-spun,
- powdered,
- most quality,
- fine drawn.
- in-elastic,
- most emasculated,
- most enfeebled,
- in elastic,
- most irresilient,
- more enfeebled,
- more sapped,
- lax,
- more irresilient,
- Irresilient,
- most sapped,
- more emasculated,
- enervated.
- dis gusting,
- scummy,
- dis-gusting,
- scuzziest,
- shoddy,
- un-cleaner,
- slimier,
- un cleanest,
- scuzzier,
- un cleaner,
- un-cleanest,
- un clean,
- un-washed,
- scummiest,
- cruddier,
- cruddiest,
- un washed.
- in sincere,
- hypo critical,
- in sincerest,
- in-sincerest,
- in-sincere,
- hypo-critical,
- in sincerer,
- in-sincerer.
- re achier,
- full of holes,
- re achiest,
- re-achiest,
- for birds,
- un-reasonable,
- full holes,
- reachiest,
- re-achier,
- reachier,
- wont hold water,
- re-achy,
- wont wash,
- re achy,
- in conceivable,
- in-conceivable,
- un reasonable.
- un likeliest,
- un likely,
- un likelier,
- more hundred to one,
- unheard of,
- slim none,
- hundred-to-one,
- un imaginable,
- far fetched,
- un-likelier,
- un-imaginable,
- slim and none,
- outside chance,
- most hundred to one,
- not expected,
- most hundred-to-one,
- un-likely,
- hundred to one.
- in-credible,
- in-cogitable,
- in credible,
- un thinkable,
- in-supposable,
- more incogitable,
- most insupposable,
- in supposable,
- out question,
- out the question,
- most incogitable,
- un-thinkable,
- in cogitable,
- more insupposable.
- in-firmer,
- in firmest,
- more faltering,
- in securest,
- un stable,
- in-securer,
- more sensile,
- in-securest,
- most faltering,
- in-firmest,
- un stablest,
- most sensile,
- un-stabler,
- in-firm,
- un-stable,
- in-secure,
- in secure,
- un stabler,
- in firmer,
- un-stablest,
- in securer.
- un-real,
- in-corporeal,
- in substantial,
- meta-physical,
- in-substantial,
- meta physical,
- too little too late,
- in corporeal,
- fly by night.
- un-satisfactory,
- in adequate,
- most unpersuasive,
- un-persuasive,
- un pleasing,
- in-efficient,
- ineffective,
- more ineffective,
- un-pleasing,
- un persuasive,
- in effective,
- lamest,
- un satisfactory,
- un suitable,
- more unpersuasive,
- in efficient,
- more unpleasing,
- in-sufficient,
- most unpleasing,
- un-suitable,
- inefficient,
- in-effective,
- in-adequate.
- unheavy,
- Floatable,
- featherweight,
- light-footed,
- weightless,
- frothy,
- lithe,
- Imponderous,
- lightest,
- tissuelike,
- sylphlike.
- in-fertile,
- un finished,
- in fertile,
- in considerable,
- skimpest,
- un-productive,
- scrimpier,
- scrimpest,
- un-fruitful,
- in-considerable,
- meager,
- scrimpiest,
- un productive,
- un-finished,
- un fruitful.
- passed away,
- hypothetical,
- passed on,
- few and far between,
- Non-existent,
- Perished,
- null and void,
- without foundation.
- ramshackle,
- fine-grained,
- cobwebby,
- scant,
- unbelievable,
- chiffon,
- baseless,
- delicate,
- cruddy,
- Bummed,
- thin,
- broomstick,
- see through,
- weak,
- filmy,
- insubstantial,
- scrimper,
- fine-drawn,
- tip of the iceberg,
- light as a feather,
- light,
- grungy,
- lowdown,
- weakly,
- infirm,
- extra ordinary,
- sheer,
- piddly,
- fracturable,
- wornout,
- in the pits,
- Incogitable,
- shoaler,
- unpersuasive,
- slack,
- scrimpy,
- frangible,
- improbable,
- reedy,
- cobweblike,
- unfit,
- Insupposable,
- low-down,
- hairline,
- floaty,
- nonexistent,
- STANDOUT,
- tiffany,
- superficial,
- laid low,
- rinkydink,
- Shattery,
- anile,
- soft,
- on the surface,
- gauzy,
- hollow,
- out-standing,
- skin-deep,
- seethrough,
- Subtile,
- skimper,
- one-dimensional,
- won't wash,
- can't make the grade,
- Pulverulent,
- diaphanous,
- down and out,
- wimpy,
- Unfrequent,
- Gossamery,
- pre-eminent,
- broken down,
- smattery,
- recherche,
- ill-equipped,
- beside point,
- not fit,
- rachitic,
- sticker,
- shatterable,
- tenuous,
- for the birds,
- won't hold water,
- semioccasional,
- uncool,
- in firm,
- creaky,
- decrepit,
- flaccid,
- unpromising,
- creakier,
- paper-thin,
- ill-adapted,
- breakable,
- out of place,
- crispy,
- reachy,
- Depthless,
- implausible,
- scummier,
- unpleasing,
- slight,
- unconvincing,
- Fine-spun,
- groundless,
- out of shape,
- rings phony,
- wafer-thin,
- Non-essential,
- rare,
- scuzzy,
- airy,
- frail,
- out of question,
- paper thin,
- sensile,
- weatherbeaten,
- trashy.
- more rinky-dink,
- twobit,
- diddlier,
- most rinky dink,
- more rinky dink,
- most rinkydink,
- most rinky-dink,
- two bit,
- rinky-dink,
- more rinkydink,
- diddliest,
- rinky dink.
- un firmest,
- un-firmest,
- un firm,
- unfirmer,
- de-relict,
- de relict,
- un-safer,
- un safest,
- unfirm,
- un steadiest,
- jerrybuilt,
- un safe,
- un-steadiest,
- unfirmest,
- un-safe,
- jerry built,
- un-firmer,
- un steadier,
- un-safest,
- un firmer,
- un steady,
- un-firm,
- un safer,
- un-steadier.
- most seldom,
- sub-tile,
- more seldom,
- more attenuate,
- un usual,
- un commoner,
- semi-occasional,
- semi occasional,
- un-frequent,
- un-wonted,
- un frequent,
- out of ordinary,
- few,
- more semioccasional,
- extra-ordinary,
- rarest,
- most unfrequent,
- sub tiler,
- sub tile,
- un-common,
- un common,
- out ordinary,
- most attenuated,
- un-likeliest,
- un commonest,
- sub-tiler,
- out the ordinary,
- most semioccasional,
- subtilest,
- more unfrequent,
- most attenuate,
- subtiler,
- un-usual,
- un-commoner,
- un wonted,
- more attenuated.
- stickest,
- most broomstick,
- more skeleton,
- reediest,
- most shadow,
- most skeleton,
- reedier,
- more shadow,
- more broomstick.
- more quick-fix,
- nodding,
- shoalest,
- more quick fix,
- most quickfix,
- quick-fix,
- tip iceberg,
- tip the iceberg,
- tip of iceberg,
- in-attentive,
- most quick fix,
- more quickfix,
- most depthless,
- quickfix,
- most smattery,
- more smattery,
- flashest,
- more warped,
- most warped,
- most quick-fix,
- more depthless,
- flasher.
- un juster,
- un-juster,
- un fairer,
- un-fair,
- un just,
- un-fairest,
- un-fairer,
- un-justest,
- un fair,
- un justest,
- un fairest,
- un-just.
- more waferthin,
- waferthin,
- more weak-kneed,
- most paper thin,
- most paper-thin,
- most weak-kneed,
- more weakkneed,
- more paper thin,
- re fined,
- more wafer thin,
- more paperthin,
- most stretched,
- most wafer thin,
- more wafer-thin,
- more paper-thin,
- weak kneed,
- paperthin,
- more stretched,
- most waferthin,
- most wafer-thin,
- wafer thin,
- weakkneed,
- most paperthin,
- most weakkneed,
- more weak kneed.
- lamebrained,
- re aching,
- re-aching,
- beyond belief,
- un believable,
- more lamebrained,
- open doubt,
- open to doubt,
- most lamebrained,
- past belief,
- un-believable,
- more cockamamie,
- cockamamie.
- in-compatible,
- in-congruous,
- ill adapted,
- in appropriate,
- most unpromising,
- un fit,
- more illequipped,
- in applicable,
- illsuited,
- un-suited,
- most ill-equipped,
- cant make the grade,
- more ill-adapted,
- un-promising,
- in-applicable,
- more ill-equipped,
- in-felicitous,
- in-harmonious,
- most illadapted,
- more uncool,
- un meeter,
- Unmeet,
- mis taken,
- in harmonious,
- ill suited,
- more ill equipped,
- illadapted,
- most ill equipped,
- in correct,
- out shape,
- ill equipped,
- un becoming,
- un-meet,
- un promising,
- out place,
- most illequipped,
- un meetest,
- un-cool,
- un meet,
- cant make grade,
- in-appropriate,
- more ill adapted,
- can't make grade,
- un-meeter,
- in compatible,
- illequipped,
- un cool,
- most ill adapted,
- out of element,
- in felicitous,
- in expedient,
- most uncool,
- unmeetest,
- in congruous,
- un congenial,
- in-expedient,
- un-meetest,
- most ill-adapted,
- out element,
- more illadapted,
- unmeeter,
- un-becoming,
- un-fit,
- more unpromising,
- un-congenial,
- un suited.
n.
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- creased,
- assailable,
- logical,
- contemptible,
- inadequate,
- Breathable,
- puerile,
- wishful,
- trifling,
- cogent,
- fibrous,
- crisp,
- false,
- lame,
- inane,
- distressed,
- cellular,
- fallacious,
- inept,
- illogical,
- colorfast,
- brushed.
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- likely.
- STATS,
- chip off old block,
- photo copy,
- flimsies,
- reproduction,
- mimeo,
- lookalike,
- REPRO,
- look alike,
- STAT.
Other synonyms:
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- friable,
- crumbly,
- spindly,
- unsourced,
- Unconceivable,
- feckless,
- limp,
- breakables.
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•
- wretched,
- poor,
- incredible,
- unsound,
- puny,
- reptilian,
- flaky,
- inconsistent,
- inconsistency.
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•
- sensitive.
- negligible,
- frailty,
- Scissile,
- lanky,
- wavering,
- autograph,
- attenuate,
- cheap-jack,
- vapid,
- fluffy,
- precarious,
- Leanly,
- unfounded,
- nugatory,
- petty,
- faltering,
- farcical,
- coarsely,
- greenback,
- watered-down,
- enfeebled,
- disreputable,
- debility,
- rarely,
- fiddle-faddle,
- misty,
- wobbling,
- hazy,
- thinned,
- Fingle-fangle,
- softly,
- unreasonable,
- parchment,
- lean,
- Thinnish,
- harshly,
- crumble,
- gracile,
- loose,
- ruined,
- document,
- relaxed,
- barely,
- expire,
- compressible,
- falling apart,
- half-baked,
- Slinky,
- matter,
- scanty,
- attenuated,
- defect,
- watered,
- doubtful,
- treacherous,
- badly,
- cranky,
- defectively,
- facsimile,
- immaterial,
- unclouded,
- gaseous,
- Unreasoned,
- fragility,
- otiose,
- lucubration,
- holograph,
- carbon,
- dissolve,
- Crumbling,
- diluted,
- digestible,
- draughtsman,
- manuscript,
- swooning,
- shabby,
- crybaby,
- peekaboo,
- fail,
- composition,
- vacuous,
- cut,
- adulterated,
- halfheartedly,
- clear,
- doormat,
- silly,
- insufficiently,
- lightly,
- mild,
- imaginary,
- irresolute,
- scraggy,
- tumbledown,
- rocky,
- wanton,
- flimsily,
- depart,
- squeezable,
- Unsecure,
- printed matter,
- foolish,
- paper money,
- wear,
- elf,
- iffy,
- trite,
- Lacerable,
- wasp-waisted,
- unnerve,
- production,
- uninspired,
- anemic,
- first draft,
- banknote,
- script,
- imitation,
- roughly,
- rarefied,
- insecure,
- willowy,
- bank note,
- neglected,
- fall,
- chimerical,
- beyond repair,
- boyish,
- dilapidated,
- spiritless,
- article,
- lifeless,
- brainchild,
- starve,
- subtle,
- insignificant,
- inconsequential,
- spineless,
- draft,
- flabby,
- catchpenny,
- bank bill,
- cavernous,
- sluttish,
- Controvertible,
- thin-bodied,
- crushable,
- typescript,
- sparsely,
- questionable,
- poorly made,
- ineffectively,
- enervate,
- not difficult,
- undependable,
- Fribbling,
- poem,
- cellophane,
- poor person,
- tender,
- insignificantly,
- lacy,
- bony,
- windy,
- Fribble,
- ethereal,
- vain,
- ineffectually,
- thinly,
- yielding,
- wimp,
- die,
- nimble,
- slim,
- fissile,
- paltry,
- Whey-faced,
- lite,
- womanish,
- inconstant,
- sparse,
- gingerbread,
- brittle as glass,
- ridiculous,
- slightly,
- scrawny,
- scantily,
- reading matter,
- feebleness,
- unjustified,
- jerry,
- broken-down,
- makeshift,
- wakeful,
- piddling,
- propagation,
- tinny,
- in disrepair,
- diet,
- skinny,
- watery,
- unlikely,
- ruin,
- unimportant,
- Unapt,
- transcription,
- cut rate,
- falling down,
- changeable,
- effeminate,
- feathery,
- surface,
- draughty,
- drooping,
- futile,
- vacillating,
- play,
- slender,
- wet,
- miserable,
- letter,
- breeding,
- stationery,
- telegram,
- copy,
- narrowly,
- clumsy,
- inconclusive,
- faintly,
- gimcrack,
- weaken,
- Recension,
- gaunt,
- foible,
- illusory,
- unsubstantiated,
- opus,
- namby-pamby,
- empty,
- sterile,
- unsure,
- peddling,
- vaporous,
- unaccented,
- uncompressed,
- floppy,
- insufficient,
- spongy,
- fiction,
- unable,
- uncalled-for,
- original,
- uncertain,
- tottering,
- talentless,
- violently,
- typewriter paper,
- nebulous,
- derelict,
- version,
- translucent,
- Teetering,
- inadequately,
- piece,
- transcript,
- draught,
- deaden,
- wispy,
- scarcely,
- poor man,
- promiscuous,
- anaemic,
- fairy,
- unimpressive,
- meagre,
- unessential,
- approximately,
- not burdensome,
- untrustworthy,
- awkward,
- bill,
- work,
- chintzy,
- dainty,
- inconsiderable,
- Finikin,
- tame,
- vague,
- finical,
- lightheaded,
- pass,
- sprite,
- essay,
- unjustifiable,
- short,
- sissified,
- creaking,
- Half-hearted,
- annihilate,
- coward,
- speculative,
- tawdry,
- weakness,
- pale,
- poorly,
- girlish,
- frivolous,
- writing,
- lightsome,
- dilute,
- Wiredrawn,
- fatuous,
- scroll,
- suppositional,
- succumb,
- finespun,
- fault,
- shivery,
- dubious,
- nonfiction,
- ineffectual,
- Uncompact,
- lukewarm,
- airily,
- drily,
- cheap,
- asinine,
- clean,
- Unsteadfast,
- miniature,
- lightweight,
- Pulverous,
- abstemious,
- svelte,
- unproved,
- irresponsible,
- sketchy,
- go,
- fade,
- Unsustained,
- fine,
- penscript,
- twiggy,
- weakling,
- small,
- unsatisfactory,
- infrequently,
- easy,
- unavailing,
- slipshod,
- niggling,
- scrip,
- printout,
- perish,
- inaccurate,
- idle,
- perishable,
- paper,
- rubbery,
- tatty,
- literature,
- trivial,
- lamely,
- gratuitous,
- break,
- impair,
- underweight.
How to use "Flimsy" in context?
The word "flimsy" can be used to describe a person or thing that is not strong or sturdy. For example, the chair that is flimsy is not able to support a person's weight. The word can also be used to describe something that is not practical or useful. For example, the hose that is flimsy is not able to supply water to a large area.
Paraphrases for Flimsy:
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Adjective
brittle, delicate, flawed, groundless, inconsistent, insubstantial, lightweight, perfunctory, poor, precarious, shaky, slight, superficial, tenuous, unconvincing, unfounded, unsound, untenable, vulnerable.
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feeble, frail, indefensible, thin.
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Hyponym for Flimsy:
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typewriter paper, typing paper.
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more promotive
- Synonyms:
- accessory, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, promotive, tending, useful, calculated to produce, productive of.
