flimsy
US: /ˈfɫɪmzi/
UK: /flˈɪmzi/
UK: /flˈɪmzi/
English Vietnamese dictionary
flimsy /flimsy/
- tính từ
- mỏng manh, mỏng mảnh
- hời hợt, nông cạn
- a flimsy excuse: lời cáo lỗi hời hợt; lý do hời hợt
- a flimsy argument: lý lẽ nông cạn
- tầm thường, nhỏ mọn
- danh từ
- giấy mỏng (các phóng viên hay dùng để viết bài)
- bài viết trên giấy mỏng (của các phóng viên)
- (từ lóng) tiền giấy
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective (flimsier, flimsiest)
1 badly made and not strong enough for the purpose for which it is used: a flimsy bridge / table
2 (of material) thin and easily torn: a flimsy piece of paper / fabric / plastic
3 difficult to believe: a flimsy excuse / explanation + The evidence against him is pretty flimsy. + He keeps calling on the flimsiest of pretexts.
flimsily adverb
flimsiness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 slight, frail, weak, insubstantial or unsubstantial, feeble, makeshift, fragile, frangible, breakable, rickety, ramshackle, dilapidated, jerry-built, gimcrack, slight, delicate:
That flimsy ladder will never support me. He lives in a flimsy shack near the railway.
2 slight, trivial, paltry, feeble, unconvincing, weak, makeshift, implausible, unbelievable, unsatisfactory, insubstantial or unsubstantial, poor, inadequate:
Her flimsy excuse was that she had a headache.
3 sheer, light, gauzy, transparent, thin, filmy, diaphanous, gossamer, delicate:
She was wearing a flimsy pink blouse.
Concise English dictionary
flimsier|flimsiest|flimsies'flɪmzɪ
noun
+a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
adj.
+lacking solidity or strength and liable to break
+having little substance or significance
+very thin and insubstantial
+resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness
