FLIMSY

adj. 1 slight, frail, weak, insubstantial or unsubstantial, feeble, makeshift, fragile, frangible, breakable, rickety, ramshackle, dilapidated, jerry-built, gimcrack, slight, delicate That flimsy ladder will never support me He lives in a flimsy shack near the railway. 2 slight, trivial, paltry, feeble, unconvincing, weak, makeshift, implausible, unbelievable, unsatisfactory, insubstantial or unsubstantial, poor, inadequate Her flimsy excuse was that she had a headache 3 sheer, light, gauzy, transparent, thin, filmy, diaphanous, gossamer, delicate She was wearing a flimsy pink blouse