(superl.) Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
(n.) Thin or transfer paper.
(n.) A bank note.
Example Sentences:
(1) The airline had secured its injunction on the admittedly flimsy grounds that Unite broke strict rules over reporting ballot results.
(2) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(3) The system is flimsy, not fit for purpose in an emergency.
(4) Samsung has announced a new Galaxy Alpha smartphone with a metal body, signalling that it has recognised consumer disgruntlement with flimsy plastic phone parts.
(5) Around 200,000 still live in flimsy shelters on rubbish-strewn wastelands.
(6) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
(7) Mansour rejected the charges, calling them “a flimsy attempt at character assassination”.
(8) Indeed, as well as the rather flimsy link between game and film, there's also a distinct absence of the game's presence in any of the film's marketing.
(9) If the British government wants the best of its teachers to stick around and deliver this on home soil, it needs to provide good reasons for them to do so – and they need to be better reasons than flimsy, inconsequential pre-election workload surveys and 1% pay increases .
(10) Ironically it was Dylan, whom she met in New York years later, who introduced her to the peace movement which she took to instantly; it gave a focus for her dissent and brought fire to her otherwise flimsy folk songs.
(11) A spokesman for North Korea’s Association for Human Rights Studies said on Wednesday that Shin’s admissions “self-exposed” the flimsy foundations of efforts to censure Pyongyang for its rights record.
(12) Their criticism of Ms Spielman for lacking “passion” is a flimsy one based on the style of her response to questions, not the substance of her answers.
(13) His clothes were taken away and he was returned to the freezing cell wearing only a flimsy hospital gown.
(14) Yes, the passing was loose, the midfield was short of ingenuity and there were only fleeting glimpses of a team of genuine force but that should hardly constitute a surprise given the flimsy preparations.
(15) Everything underlying the conviction struck him as flimsy.
(16) He added: "Businessmen did not get where they are today by accepting such flimsy advice."
(17) It is a sad, sad state of affairs that a person can be killed for such a flimsy reason."
(18) Despite the fact that the science is often poorly understood, and that some experts say it is too flimsy to use in court, such evidence has succeeded in reducing defendants' sentences and in some cases clearing them of guilt altogether.
(19) Militias are reportedly already preying on displaced people whose flimsy huts dot the city, bright flashes of colour between bullet-pocked buildings.
(20) How dangerously flimsy would one's marriage have to be before it felt threatened by other couples signing a different piece of paper – or, indeed, by a same sex couple following you to the altar?
Weak
Definition:
(v. i.) Wanting physical strength.
(v. i.) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
(v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.
(v. i.) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.
(v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.
(v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.
(v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
(v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.
(v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.
(v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.
(v. i.) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.
(v. i.) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
(v. i.) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
(v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.
(v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.
(v. i.) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.
(v. i.) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.
(v. i.) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
(v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.
(v. i.) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.
(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).
(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).
(a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(3) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(4) The strengths and weaknesses of each technique are described in this article.
(5) In group V, five cases of Taenia saginata parasitosis were studied showing a weak positive reading.
(6) Although the longest period required for resolving weakness was three days, the MRI, the CT and the electroencephalogram revealed no significant abnormality.
(7) Her muscle weakness and hyperCKemia markedly improved by corticosteroid therapy, suggesting that the diagnosis was compatible with polymyositis (PM).
(8) It was concluded that Ta acts as a weak zeitgeber in laboratory rats and has greater effects on males compared to females.
(9) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(10) Sensory loss, motor weakness, paraesthesia and a new pain were found as complications in 12, 7, 4 and 6 patients, respectively.
(11) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(12) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(13) The weakness was treated by intensive physical rehabilitation with complete and sustained recovery in all cases.
(14) It also showed weak inhibition of the solid type of Ehrlich carcinoma and prolonged the survival period of mice inoculated with L-1210 cells.
(15) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.
(16) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
(17) DL 071 IT, a new potent non-selective beta-adrenergic blocking drug with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity and weak membrane stabilizing activity, was evaluated alone and in comparison with oxprenolol, in six volunteers, at rest and during an exercise test.
(18) A variety of weak acids at and below their pK(a) are potent inhibitors of transport in Penicillium chrysogenum.
(19) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
(20) The radioprotective action in E. coli ATCC 9637 of ascorbate added to media containing the weak sensitizer, tetracycline (effect described by Pittillo and Lucas (1967)), was found to be dependent on the presence of metal catalysts of the autoxidation of ascorbate.