flimsy🔊

(frail) Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.

(thin) Of clothing: very light and thin.

(figurative)

Of an argument, explanation, etc.: ill-founded, unconvincing, weak; also, unimportant; paltry, trivial.

Of a person: lacking depth of character or understanding; frivolous, superficial.

(obsolete) Of a person, their physical makeup, or their health: delicate, frail.

A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.

(paper)Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; a sheet of such paper.

(by extension) A document printed or typed on such paper.

A service certificate.

A banknote; paper money.

The text to be set into pages of magazines, newspapers, etc.; copy.

(container)(military slang) A hexahedral metal container with a capacity of four imperial gallons (about 18 litres) used by the {{w|British Army}} during World War II to hold fuel.

To make (something) likely to be easily damaged.

(historical) 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 (paper))''.

(figurative) To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate.