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单词 flimsy
释义
flimsy
adjective
uk
/ˈflɪm.zi/us
/ˈflɪm.zi/

flimsyadjective(THIN)

verythin, oreasilybrokenordestroyed:
很薄的；易破的；易损坏的
You won't bewarmenough in that flimsydress.你穿那么薄的衣服不够暖和。
Wespentthenightin a flimsywoodenhut.我们在一个不太坚固的小木屋里过了一夜。
a flimsycardboardbox薄纸板箱
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
breaking easily
  • weakIf trees do not get enough water they become weak.
  • strongSteel is a very strong material.
  • flimsyThere was only a flimsy inflatable raft between him and the raging river
  • ricketyWe climbed up the rickety wooden stairs.
  • fragileSome objects are too fragile to be moved between the museums.
  • delicateShe carefully wrapped up the delicate glass ornaments.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Fragile and breakable
  • breakable
  • brittle
  • crumbly
  • delicacy
  • delicate
  • dodgy
  • fissile
  • flaky
  • flimsily
  • flimsiness
  • fragile
  • fragility
  • frail
  • friable
  • ramshackle
  • rickety
  • tenuous
  • tenuously

flimsyadjective(DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE)

A flimsyargument,excuse, etc. isweakanddifficulttobelieve:
（论点、借口等）不足信的，站不住脚的
When Iaskedhim why he was late, he gave me some flimsyexcuseabout havingcartrouble.我问他为什么迟到时，他给了个很不足信的借口，说车出毛病了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not believable
  • belief
  • by no stretch (of the imagination)idiom
  • fanciful
  • fancifully
  • far-fetched
  • implausibility
  • implausible
  • implausibly
  • incredible
  • incredibly
  • joke
  • kid
  • pass
  • too good to be trueidiom
  • unbelievable
  • unbelievably
  • unconvincing
  • unthinkable
  • wash
  • weak
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Related words

flimsily
flimsiness
(Definition offlimsyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

flimsy| American Dictionary

flimsy
adjective
us
/ˈflɪm·zi/
(ofmaterial) verythin, or (of astructureorobject)badlymade andweak, andthereforeeasilybrokenordestroyed:
a flimsydress
a flimsybuilding
Flimsy alsomeansweakand notpersuasive:
Theyconvictedthedefendanton very flimsyevidence.
(Definition offlimsyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflimsy

flimsy
The logic governing clinical trials of drugs emerged only in the twentieth century, after eons of the use of medications on only the flimsiest empirical basis.
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We all know that we keep carbon copies of our letters, but carbons are not provided nor the flimsies to go with them.
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In no time, she is wearing the flimsiest of clothes.
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In the kanun, although punishments are less severe, a person could be convicted and punished on veryflimsycircumstantial grounds.
From theCambridge English Corpus
When all seemed impossible and even solutions to the flimsiest problems seemed like an uphill task, something happened suddenly, that changed all!
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If there is money to be made, barriers to cosmetic neurology appearflimsyat best.
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The second model was an experimental plane of the flimsiest construction for use in the calmest of seas.
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He wanted a rocking horse, because the clothes one was tooflimsy.
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The ' ' commonsense ' ' of indifference turns out to be a ratherflimsyfoundation on which to rest powerful mathematics.
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At most, the retributive argument for it, which would bring enhanced sentences within the usual limiting justification for detention, is controversial andflimsy.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The larvae attacked, for the most part, did not respin their cocoons after collection ; those which did spin a cocoon made only a thin,flimsyone.
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In both gender and science studies, naturalization is ideology at full strength, hardening theflimsyconventions of culture into the immutable, inevitable, and indifferent dictates of nature.
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The measures proposed here are somewhatflimsy, but they are nonetheless necessary and imperative.
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Now he has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a symbolic act on the basis offlimsyarguments.
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He had scarcely received a just trial and had been sentenced onflimsygrounds.
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