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Flimsy vs Flabby - What's the difference?

flimsy | flabby |

As adjectives the difference between flimsy and flabby

is that flimsy is likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile while flabby is yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh .

As a noun flimsy

is thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.

flimsy

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
  • He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.
  • * Sheridan
  • All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.

    Antonyms

    * robust * strong * sturdy

    Noun

    (flimsies)
  • Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
  • *1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 251:
  • *:Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand.
  • (informal, in the plural) Skimpy underwear.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 25, author=Ruth La Ferla, title=Now It’s Nobody’s Secret, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Choosing lingerie “is about what makes you look good, but also what looks good with or through your clothing,” said Monica Mitro, a spokeswoman for Victoria’s Secret, the brand that catapulted racy flimsies into the public eye. }}

    flabby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh .
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , date = 1867-12-28 , title = External Manual Pressure during Labour , first = John , last = Wades , journal = The British Medical Journal , volume = 2 , page = 601 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=RxRAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA601&dq=flabby , passage = My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen. }}
  • (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
  • overwrought.
  • a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space

    Antonyms

    * (yielding to the touch) muscled

    Synonyms

    * (having a slight lack of acidity) flat