Flimsiness
101flimsy — adjective 1 flimsy cloth or clothing is light and thin, and can tear easily: a flimsy summer dress 2 flimsy equipment, buildings etc are not well made and are easily broken 3 a flimsy argument, excuse etc is not believable: The evidence against… …
102delicacy — noun 1) the fabric s delicacy Syn: fineness, exquisiteness, daintiness, airiness; flimsiness, gauziness, silkiness 2) the children s delicacy Syn: sickliness, ill health, frailty, fragility …
103weakness — noun 1) with old age came weakness Syn: frailty, feebleness, enfeeblement, fragility, delicacy; infirmity, sickness, sickliness, debility, incapacity, impotence, indisposition, decrepitude, vulnerability 2) he has worked on his weak …
104shout — vb Shout, yell, shriek, scream, screech, squeal, holler, whoop are comparable when they mean as verbs to make or utter a loud and penetrating sound that tends or is intended to attract attention and, as nouns, a sound or utterance of this… …
105airiness — n 1. immateriality, incorporeality, bodi lessness; unsubstantiality, tenuousness, illusoriness, unreality; ethereality, weightlessness, lightness, buoyancy. 2. delicacy, flimsiness, thinness; gauziness, diaphaneity, sheerness, transparency,… …
106attenuation — n 1. thinning out, rarefaction, ethe realization, spiritualization, volatilization, vaporization; weakening, impairment, invalidation; diminution, lessening, dilution, adulteration. 2. thinness, tenuity, fineness, slenderness, leanness;… …
107delicacy — n 1. lightness, fineness, slightness, slen derness, fragility, daintiness; translucency, tenuity, diaphaneity, transparence, etherealness, flimsiness; tenderness, softness. 2. tidbit, appetizer, dainty, bonbon, sweetmeat, luxury. 3. refinement,… …
108fragility — n 1. delicacy, frailness, brittleness, frailty, breakableness, frangibility, crumbliness, friability; flimsiness, ricketiness, shakiness, unstableness, unsteadiness, decrepitude. 2. frailness, weakness, infirmity; caducity, transitoriness,… …
109instability — n 1. impermanence, unsteadiness, unendurability; shakiness, flimsiness, unsubstantiality, ricketiness; sleaziness, unsafeness, unsoundness; weakness, frailty, precariousness, Sl. chanciness, uncertainty; insecurity, vulnerability, susceptibility …
110invalidity — n 1. untenableness, inconclusiveness, unscientificness; illogicalness, illogicality, irrelevance, unreasonableness, senselessness, irrationality, incoherence, absurdity; falseness, falsity, fallacy, fallaciousness, erroneousness; speciousness,… …
