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- Practice the English pronunciation of flimsy with real speech in context.
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- How to Find Creativity and Purpose in the Face of Adversity
in part because it felt like such a tenuous, flimsy hope.
- Definition summary
- Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial. [from 18th c.]
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How to pronounce flimsy
How to Find Creativity and Purpose in the Face of Adversity
in part because it felt like such a tenuous, flimsy hope.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “flimsy”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial. [from 18th c.]
- (figurative)
- [Noun]
- A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.
- (also attributive, uncountable) Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; (countable) a sheet of such paper.
- (by extension) A document printed or typed on such paper.
- (UK, military slang) 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.
- [Verb]
- To make (something) likely to be easily damaged.
- (dated or 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 noun sense 2); to distribute such flimsies.
- (figurative) To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate.
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