Flimsiness
111tenuity — n 1. tenuousness, flimsiness. See tenuousness. 2. slenderness, thinness, fineness, leanness; gracility, gracileness, delicateness, delicacy; frailty, frailness, fragility, fragileness; sheerness, diaphaneity, diaphan ousness; lightness,… …
112tenuousness — n shakiness, insecurity, precariousness, Sl. hairiness; uncertainty, indefiniteness, doubtfulness, dubiousness; vagueness, haziness, nebulousness, fuzziness; weakness, flimsiness, insubstantiality. See also tenuity(def. 2) …
113thinness — n 1. leanness, spareness, attenuation, skinniness; narrowness, slenderness, slimness, gracili ty, gracileness, slightness; gauntness, lankness, lankiness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, scrubbiness, puniness, runtiness, smallness. 2.… …
114delicacy — noun 1) the delicacy of the fabric Syn: fineness, delicateness, fragility, thinness, lightness, flimsiness 2) the delicacy of the situation Syn: difficulty, trickiness, sensitivity, ticklishness …
115weakness — noun 1) with old age came weakness Syn: frailty, feebleness, fragility, delicacy, debility, incapacity, decrepitude; informal weediness 2) he has worked on his weaknesses Syn: fault, flaw, defect …
116cardboard — card•board [[t]ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd, ˌboʊrd[/t]] n. 1) a thin, stiff pasteboard, used for signs, boxes, etc 2) cvb resembling cardboard, esp. in flimsiness: an apartment with cardboard walls[/ex] 3) cvb not fully lifelike; two dimensional: a silly movie… …
117flimsy — /ˈflɪmzi / (say flimzee) adjective (flimsier, flimsiest) 1. without material strength or solidity: a flimsy material; a flimsy structure. 2. weak; inadequate; not carefully thought out: a flimsy excuse; a flimsy argument. –noun (plural flimsies)… …
118feebleness — [n] lack of strength; ineffectiveness debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustion, flimsiness, frailness, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectualness, infirmity,… …
119frailty — [n] weakness, flaw Achilles heel*, blemish, daintiness, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccability, peccadillo, shortcoming,… …
120flimsily — flimsy ► ADJECTIVE (flimsier, flimsiest) 1) weak and insubstantial. 2) (of clothing) light and thin. 3) (of a pretext or account) weak; unconvincing. ► NOUN (pl. flimsies) Brit. 1) very thin paper …
