Synonyms for flimsy
ˈflɪm ziflim·sy

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1. flimsynoun

   Antonyms:
   robust, strong, sturdy

2. flimsyadjective

   Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.

   He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.

   Antonyms:
   robust, sturdy, strong

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1. flimsy

   Synonyms:
   gauzy, poor, thin, transparent, trifling, trivial, puerile, inane, slight, superficial, weak, shallow

   Antonyms:
   solid, sound, irrefragable, substantial, cogent

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1. onionskin, flimsyadjective

   a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

   Synonyms:
   onionskin

   Antonyms:
   significant, strong, important

2. flimsyadjective

   lacking solidity or strength

   "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"

   Synonyms:
   fragile, unconvincing, thin, tenuous, slight

   Antonyms:
   strong, important, significant

3. unconvincing, flimsyadjective

   not convincing

   "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

   Synonyms:
   unbelievable, slight, improbable, tenuous, fragile, thin, unlikely, unconvincing

   Antonyms:
   important, strong, significant

4. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thinadjective

   lacking substance or significance

   "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

   Synonyms:
   slender, delicate, slight, sparse, slim, tenuous, fragile, lean, frail, thin, little(a), svelte, unconvincing

   Antonyms:
   important, significant, strong

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1. flimsyadjective

   Synonyms:
   slight, thin, unsubstantial, of frail texture

2. flimsyadjective

   Synonyms:
   weak, feeble, trivial, frivolous, foolish, trifling, light, puerile, shallow, superficial, trashy

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1. flimsyadjective

   Synonyms:
   superficial, unsubstantial, weak, feeble, shallow, frivolous

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1. List of paraphrases for "flimsy":

   untenable, fragile, unconvincing, weak, tenuous, feeble

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1. David Shear:

   There are no legal clauses that allow us to unilaterally change the contract or allow any one of the partners to simply walk away or overturn the entire agreement, no serious investor in any industry in the world would agree to a long-term business relationship with flimsy termination clauses.

2. James Scott:

   When flimsy cyber defense fails, Format Preserving Encryption prevails

3. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards:

   It's not conjecture, it's not some flimsy theory, this is what is going to happen.

4. Nicholas Wade:

   Mainstream media, newspapers and television networks, they just bought into that story without doing any serious digging of their own, that is why we have been in this sort of delusion for more than a year. Our media has let us down by failing to investigate a very flimsy story that these two groups of virologists put out.

5. Andy Sere:

   Instead of using our guy's record to prosecute a case against him, they put all their eggs in a flimsy guilt-by-association attack that failed miserably, even in this strongly populist district, there were some ads where they spent 26 seconds talking about the Kochs and four seconds on Jenkins, which was fine by me.