flimsy

Plural: flimsies

Noun

A thin, transparent paper, often for carbon copies.
a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
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.

Adjective Satellite

lacking solidity or strength
- "a flimsy table"
- "flimsy construction"
lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame"

Adjective

Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged.
not convincing

Adj

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.

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.

Examples

a flimsy excuse
He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.
He scribbled his score on a flimsy piece of paper, hoping it wouldn’t tear.
His argument that ’XYZ’ was a valid word was flimsy at best.
the flimsiest of theories

Origin / Etymology

The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly from flim(-flam) (“(noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious”) or a metathesis of film (“thin layer of a substance; slender thread”) + -sy (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).
The noun and verb are derived from the noun. Noun sense 4 (“metal container”) refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked.

Synonyms

fragile, onionskin, slight, tenuous, thin, unconvincing, diaphanous, feeble, filmy, flighty, gossamer, gossamer-thin, gossamery, shaky, silly, trifling, unfounded, unserious, unsubstantiated, weak

Antonyms

convincing, robust, serious, strong, sturdy, substantiated, thoughtful, unflimsy, well-founded

Scrabble Score: 14

flimsy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
flimsy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flimsy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

flimsy: valid Words With Friends Word