Exact Match:
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- softly
collapse - with low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly"
- in a manner that is pleasing to the senses; "she smiled softly" related words >
- tenderly
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- with tenderness; in a tender manner; "tenderly she placed her arms round him" related words >
- adoringly,
- affectionately,
- amorously,
- ardently,
- assiduously,
- carefully,
- cautiously,
- circumspectly,
- compliantly,
- considerately,
- dearly,
- delicately,
- devotedly,
- diligently,
- easily,
- fondly,
- gently,
- heedfully,
- industriously,
- lovingly,
- mindfully,
- painstakingly,
- passionately,
- regardfully,
- sedulously,
- softly,
- solicitously,
- submissively,
- thoroughgoingly,
- thoroughly,
- thoughtfully,
- with affection,
- with care,
- with great care,
- with love
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- effeminate,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- jerry,
- light,
- lightweight,
- namby-pamby,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- puny,
- shattery,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- tacky,
- unsubstantial,
- wispy,
- womanish
- breakable
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- an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately"
- capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" related words >
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- effeminate,
- fissile,
- flimsy,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- light,
- lightweight,
- namby-pamby,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- puny,
- scissile,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivery,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- splintery,
- tacky,
- unsubstantial,
- vulnerable,
- wispy,
- womanish
- frangible
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- capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases" related words >
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- effeminate,
- fissile,
- flimsy,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- friable,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- light,
- lightweight,
- namby-pamby,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- puny,
- scissile,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivery,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- splintery,
- tacky,
- unsubstantial,
- vulnerable,
- wispy,
- womanish
- gingerly
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- with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White
- in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket" related words >
- calculating,
- cannily,
- canny,
- careful,
- carefully,
- cautious,
- cautiously,
- charily,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- circumspectly,
- considerate,
- daintily,
- dainty,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- delicately,
- discreet,
- fastidious,
- guarded,
- guardedly,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- nervous,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- politic,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- safe,
- shy,
- shyly,
- slow to act,
- squeamish,
- tentative,
- tentatively,
- thorough,
- timid,
- timidly,
- timorous,
- timorously,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- warily,
- wary,
- watchful
- crumbly
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- apt to break into small fragments or disintegrate; "crumbly cookies" related words >
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crackable,
- crimp,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crump,
- crushable,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- effeminate,
- fissile,
- flimsy,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- light,
- lightweight,
- namby-pamby,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- pulverizable,
- pulverulent,
- puny,
- rubbery,
- scissile,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivery,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- splintery,
- tacky,
- triturable,
- unsubstantial,
- vulnerable,
- wispy,
- womanish
- womanish
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- having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears" related words >
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- distaff,
- effeminate,
- female,
- feminine,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gentlewomanlike,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- girlish,
- gossamery,
- gynecic,
- gynecoid,
- gynic,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- kittenish,
- ladylike,
- light,
- lightweight,
- little-girlish,
- maidenly,
- matronal,
- matronlike,
- matronly,
- muliebral,
- muliebrous,
- namby-pamby,
- old-womanish,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- petticoat,
- prissy,
- puny,
- shattery,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sissyish,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- soft,
- tacky,
- unmanly,
- unsubstantial,
- wispy,
- womanlike,
- womanly
- effeminate
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- having unsuitable feminine qualities related words >
- AC-DC,
- amphierotic,
- autoerotic,
- bent,
- bisexed,
- bisexual,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- butch,
- campy,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- deviant,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gay,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- homoerotic,
- homosexual,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lesbian,
- light,
- lightweight,
- mannish,
- muliebrous,
- namby-pamby,
- old-womanish,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- perverted,
- prissy,
- puny,
- queer,
- sapphic,
- shattery,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sissyish,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- soft,
- tacky,
- transvestite,
- tribadistic,
- unmanly,
- unsubstantial,
- weak,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- womanly
- gently
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- in a gradual manner; "a gently sloping terrain"
- in a gentle manner; "he talked gently to the injured animal" related words >
- a la sourdine,
- cautiously,
- circumspectly,
- compliantly,
- crawlingly,
- creepingly,
- deliberately,
- delicately,
- dilatorily,
- dimly,
- easily,
- faintly,
- falteringly,
- feebly,
- haltingly,
- hushedly,
- idly,
- in low gear,
- in march time,
- in slow motion,
- in slow tempo,
- indolently,
- languidly,
- languorously,
- leisurely,
- like a lamb,
- limpingly,
- lingeringly,
- loiteringly,
- low,
- meekly,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- pacifically,
- peaceably,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pokily,
- pokingly,
- quietly,
- relaxedly,
- reluctantly,
- slow,
- slowly,
- sluggishly,
- softly,
- sordamente,
- sordo,
- subduedly,
- submissively,
- tamely,
- tarryingly,
- tenderly,
- tentatively,
- under easy sail,
- unhurriedly,
- weakly,
- with agonizing slowness,
- with deliberation
- sleazy
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- of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining" related words >
- base,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- broken-down,
- cheap,
- cheap-jack,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- cobwebby,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crappy,
- crumbly,
- crummy,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- dilapidated,
- dingy,
- dirty,
- disreputable,
- down-at-heel,
- effeminate,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flimsy,
- floppy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- light,
- lightweight,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- mean,
- namby-pamby,
- paltry,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- poor,
- puny,
- ramshackle,
- rickety,
- run-down,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shattery,
- shoddy,
- sissified,
- slight,
- slipshod,
- slummy,
- sordid,
- squalid,
- tacky,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- trashy,
- unsubstantial,
- wispy,
- womanish
- afraid,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- cobwebby,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- daunted,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- dismayed,
- effeminate,
- epicene,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- funking,
- funky,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- light,
- lightweight,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- muliebrous,
- namby-pamby,
- old-womanish,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- pigeonhearted,
- prissy,
- puny,
- rabbity,
- shattery,
- sissy,
- sissyish,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- soft,
- tacky,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unsubstantial,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- yellow
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphanous,
- diluted,
- effeminate,
- ethereal,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacy,
- light,
- lightweight,
- misty,
- namby-pamby,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- puny,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- shattery,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tacky,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- unsubstantial,
- vague,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- womanish
- easily
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- without question; "easily the best book she's written"
- with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily'); "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; "success came too easy" related words >
- absolutely,
- actually,
- assuredly,
- by far,
- cautiously,
- certainly,
- circumspectly,
- clearly,
- comfortably,
- commodiously,
- competently,
- compliantly,
- conclusively,
- conveniently,
- cozily,
- crawlingly,
- creepingly,
- decidedly,
- definitely,
- definitively,
- deliberately,
- delicately,
- dexterously,
- dilatorily,
- doubtless,
- doubtlessly,
- easy as pie,
- efficiently,
- effortlessly,
- facilely,
- falteringly,
- far and away,
- fluently,
- freely,
- gently,
- haltingly,
- handily,
- hands down,
- idly,
- in low gear,
- in march time,
- in slow motion,
- in slow tempo,
- indeed,
- indisputably,
- indolently,
- indubitably,
- languidly,
- languorously,
- leisurely,
- lightly,
- like clockwork,
- like nothing,
- limpingly,
- lingeringly,
- loiteringly,
- luxuriously,
- moderately,
- most likely,
- no doubt,
- no sweat,
- obviously,
- on easy terms,
- patently,
- peacefully,
- pokily,
- pokingly,
- positively,
- probably,
- readily,
- really,
- relaxedly,
- reluctantly,
- reposefully,
- restfully,
- roomily,
- simply,
- slow,
- slowly,
- sluggishly,
- smoothly,
- snugly,
- softly,
- submissively,
- surely,
- swimmingly,
- tarryingly,
- tenderly,
- tentatively,
- truly,
- undeniably,
- under easy sail,
- undoubtedly,
- unequivocally,
- unhurriedly,
- unquestionably,
- very likely,
- voluptuously,
- well,
- with agonizing slowness,
- with deliberation,
- with ease,
- without difficulty
- papery
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- thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material" related words >
- airy,
- atrophied,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- desiccated,
- diaphanous,
- diluted,
- dried-up,
- effeminate,
- emaciated,
- ethereal,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacy,
- light,
- lightweight,
- misty,
- namby-pamby,
- parchmenty,
- pasteboardy,
- puny,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- sere,
- shattery,
- shriveled,
- shrunken,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tacky,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- unsubstantial,
- vague,
- wasp-waisted,
- wasted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wilted,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- wrinkled,
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- fragile
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- vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth" related words >
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corruptible,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- dainty,
- deciduous,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- dying,
- effeminate,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- feeble,
- fickle,
- fissile,
- fleeting,
- flimsy,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fracturable,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- light,
- lightweight,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- namby-pamby,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- papery,
- passing,
- pasteboardy,
- perishable,
- puny,
- rickety,
- scissile,
- shaky,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivery,
- short,
- short-lived,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- splintery,
- tacky,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsubstantial,
- volatile,
- vulnerable,
- weak,
- weakly,
- wispy,
- womanish
- brittle
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- caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
- having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
- (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
- lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman" related words >
- atrophied,
- breakable,
- brittle as glass,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corruptible,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crump,
- crushable,
- dainty,
- deciduous,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- desiccated,
- dried-up,
- dying,
- effeminate,
- emaciated,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fissile,
- fleeting,
- flimsy,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- light,
- lightweight,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- namby-pamby,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- papery,
- parchmenty,
- passing,
- pasteboardy,
- perishable,
- puny,
- scissile,
- sensitive,
- sere,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivery,
- short-lived,
- shriveled,
- shrunken,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- splintery,
- tacky,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- unsubstantial,
- volatile,
- vulnerable,
- wasted,
- weak,
- wilted,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- wrinkled
- weakly
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- in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; "weakly agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly attracted to her" related words >
- a bit,
- a la sourdine,
- a little,
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- barely,
- bloodless,
- by a hair,
- by an ace,
- cachectic,
- chicken,
- cowardly,
- daintily,
- debilitated,
- decrepit,
- delicately,
- dimly,
- drained,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- effeminately,
- effete,
- enervated,
- etiolated,
- ever so little,
- exhausted,
- exiguously,
- failing,
- faint,
- faintish,
- faintly,
- feeble,
- feebly,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flimsy,
- floppy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- gently,
- gone,
- gutless,
- hardly,
- healthless,
- hushedly,
- imbecile,
- imperfectly,
- impotent,
- in poor health,
- inappreciably,
- inconsequentially,
- infirm,
- infirmly,
- insignificantly,
- insubstantial,
- invalid,
- just a bit,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- languorously,
- lightly,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- listlessly,
- little,
- low,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- meagerly,
- minimally,
- minutely,
- moribund,
- negligibly,
- nerveless,
- not hardly,
- only just,
- pale,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pithless,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- reduced,
- reduced in health,
- rubbery,
- run-down,
- sapless,
- scantily,
- scarcely,
- shakily,
- sickly,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- slightly,
- soft,
- softly,
- sordamente,
- sordo,
- spineless,
- strengthless,
- strengthlessly,
- subduedly,
- tant soit peu,
- teeteringly,
- totteringly,
- triflingly,
- unhardened,
- unhealthy,
- unnerved,
- unsound,
- unsoundly,
- unsteadily,
- unstrung,
- unsubstantial,
- unsubstantially,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- weak,
- weakened,
- with low resistance
- air-built,
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- capillary,
- cheap-jack,
- chimerical,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- cloud-built,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- downy,
- dreamlike,
- effeminate,
- ethereal,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feathery,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flagelliform,
- flimsy,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frothy,
- funicular,
- fuzzy,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamer,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imponderous,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- leger,
- ligamental,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-pervious,
- lighter than vanity,
- lightweight,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mousse,
- namby-pamby,
- nonopaque,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- phantomlike,
- pubescent,
- puny,
- rarefied,
- refined,
- revealing,
- ropy,
- satin,
- satiny,
- see-through,
- shadowy,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- silky,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- smooth,
- souffle,
- spirituous,
- stringy,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tacky,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-spun,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- unclouded,
- unheavy,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- volatile,
- weightless,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- yeasty
- puny
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- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses" related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- attenuated,
- austere,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cadaverous,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corpselike,
- cramped,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diminutive,
- dinky,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- effeminate,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- exiguous,
- feeble,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frugal,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- haggard,
- half-pint,
- hollow-eyed,
- impoverished,
- inconsequential,
- inferior,
- infirm,
- insignificant,
- jejune,
- jerkwater,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- knee-high,
- lean,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limited,
- little,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- midget,
- minor,
- minute,
- miserly,
- namby-pamby,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- nugatory,
- one-horse,
- paltry,
- papery,
- parsimonious,
- pasteboardy,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- petite,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pinched,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- pygmy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- shattery,
- short,
- shriveled,
- sickly,
- sissified,
- skeletal,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallish,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- starved,
- starveling,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tacky,
- thin,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- underdeveloped,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undersized,
- unimportant,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- useless,
- wasted,
- watered,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weazeny,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- worthless,
- wraithlike
- flimsy
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- having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
- lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"
- resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
- very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses" related words >
- adulterated,
- airy,
- asinine,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- catchpenny,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- cut,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphanous,
- dilapidated,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- effeminate,
- empty,
- ethereal,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- fissile,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- foolish,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- idle,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- inconceivable,
- inconclusive,
- incredible,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- lacy,
- lax,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limp,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- misty,
- namby-pamby,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- otiose,
- paltry,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- poor,
- puny,
- ramshackle,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- relaxed,
- rickety,
- rubbery,
- scissile,
- shaky,
- shallow,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- shivery,
- silly,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- splintery,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tacky,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- transparent,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unbelievable,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconvincing,
- unproved,
- unrigorous,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- unsustained,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vain,
- vapid,
- vaporous,
- vulnerable,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy,
- womanish
- Milquetoast,
- baby,
- banal,
- bathetic,
- bathos,
- beery,
- betwixt and between,
- big baby,
- bland,
- bleeding heart,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- cloying,
- cloyingness,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crybaby,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- doormat,
- driveling,
- dull,
- dull tool,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- flat,
- flimsy,
- formalistic,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- goo,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- gooey,
- gossamery,
- gushing,
- gutless wonder,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- innocuous,
- insipid,
- invertebrate,
- jejune,
- jellyfish,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lackluster,
- light,
- lightweight,
- maudlin,
- maudlinness,
- mawkish,
- mawkishness,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- meek soul,
- middling,
- milk-and-water,
- milksop,
- mincing,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mollycoddle,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- mushy,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nebbish,
- nonentity,
- nostalgia,
- nostalgic,
- nostomania,
- nostomanic,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- oversentimentalized,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- papery,
- passable,
- pasteboardy,
- pedantic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puny,
- puristic,
- pushover,
- respectable,
- romantic,
- romanticism,
- sad sack,
- sapless,
- sappy,
- sentiment,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- sentimentalized,
- shattery,
- simpering,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- sloppy,
- slush,
- so-so,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- soft,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- sticky,
- sweetness and light,
- tacky,
- tear-jerking,
- tearjerker,
- teary,
- tedious,
- tolerable,
- unsubstantial,
- vapid,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- wishy-washy,
- wispy,
- womanish
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- adulterated,
- airy,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- autistic,
- bodiless,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chimeric,
- cobwebby,
- crumbling,
- crumbly,
- cut,
- dainty,
- dangerous,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- deceptive,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- desultory,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- disintegrating,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- effeminate,
- erroneous,
- ethereal,
- extramundane,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fanciful,
- fantastic,
- feeble,
- fine,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gaseous,
- ghostly,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- hazardous,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- immaterial,
- impalpable,
- imponderable,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- inconclusive,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- incredible,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- light,
- lightweight,
- merely nominal,
- metaphysical,
- misleading,
- namby-pamby,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- nonsubstantial,
- not real,
- occult,
- ostensible,
- otherworldly,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- perilous,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- poor,
- poorish,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- psychic,
- puny,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- risky,
- rotten,
- rotten at,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- shadowy,
- shaky,
- shattery,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slippery,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spiritual,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supernatural,
- supposititious,
- tacky,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- tenuous,
- thick,
- thin,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- ticklish,
- transmundane,
- treacherous,
- unactual,
- unbelievable,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconcrete,
- unconvincing,
- undependable,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfirm,
- unfleshly,
- unfounded,
- unphysical,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unrealistic,
- unreliable,
- unrigorous,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsturdy,
- unsubstanced,
- unsure,
- unsustained,
- untrustworthy,
- unworldly,
- vaporous,
- visionary,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weightless,
- windy,
- wispy,
- womanish
- lightweight
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- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- having no importance or influence; "a lightweight intellect" related words >
- Boeotian,
- Chinese boxer,
- Milquetoast,
- a nobody,
- a nothing,
- baby,
- bantam,
- bantamweight,
- banty,
- big baby,
- black belt,
- block,
- boxer,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brown belt,
- bruiser,
- button,
- catchweight,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- chit,
- cipher,
- clod,
- cobwebby,
- cog,
- common man,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- creature,
- crumbly,
- crybaby,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diminutive,
- dimwit,
- dolt,
- donkey,
- doormat,
- dope,
- dull tool,
- dullard,
- dumb cluck,
- dumbbell,
- dummy,
- dunce,
- effeminate,
- featherweight,
- fighter,
- figurehead,
- fingerling,
- fisticuffer,
- flimsy,
- flunky,
- flyweight,
- follower,
- forceless,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- gowk,
- gutless wonder,
- heavyweight,
- hoi polloi,
- imponderous,
- impotent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inferior,
- insignificancy,
- invertebrate,
- jackstraw,
- jellyfish,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- jobbernowl,
- junior,
- karate expert,
- lackwit,
- lamebrain,
- light,
- light heavyweight,
- little fellow,
- little guy,
- looby,
- loon,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- man of straw,
- masses,
- mediocrity,
- meek soul,
- middleweight,
- milksop,
- mini,
- minikin,
- minnow,
- minny,
- mollycoddle,
- mouse,
- namby-pamby,
- nebbish,
- niais,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- ninnyhammer,
- nitwit,
- no-account,
- nobody one knows,
- noddy,
- nonentity,
- nubbin,
- obscurity,
- of no account,
- palooka,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- pawn,
- peewee,
- pip-squeak,
- pony,
- powerless,
- prizefighter,
- pug,
- pugilist,
- punk,
- puny,
- pushover,
- put,
- runt,
- sad sack,
- savate expert,
- scrub,
- second fiddle,
- secondary,
- shattery,
- shrimp,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slip,
- small fry,
- small potato,
- small potatoes,
- snip,
- snippet,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- sparrer,
- squirt,
- squit,
- stupid,
- subaltern,
- subordinate,
- tacky,
- thickwit,
- third stringer,
- tit,
- unauthoritative,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- underweight,
- unheavy,
- unsubstantial,
- wart,
- weak,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- weightless,
- welterweight,
- whiffet,
- whippersnapper,
- wisp,
- wispy,
- without any weight,
- witling,
- womanish,
- yes-man
- dainty
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- something considered choice to eat
- delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
- affectedly dainty or refined
- especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel" related words >
- acute,
- agreeable,
- airy,
- ambrosia,
- ambrosial,
- appetizing,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- beautiful,
- bleached,
- bonne bouche,
- bonny,
- breakable,
- bright,
- brittle,
- cate,
- cheap-jack,
- choice,
- choice morsel,
- civilized,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- cobwebby,
- comestible,
- comfit,
- crumbly,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- cunning,
- cute,
- delectable,
- delicacy,
- delicat,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- delicious,
- delightful,
- dessert,
- diaphanous,
- dirt-free,
- discriminating,
- downy,
- easy,
- eatable,
- edible,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- esculent,
- ethereal,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fastidious,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- flimsy,
- fluffy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- fresh,
- fussy,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- genteel,
- gentle,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- good,
- good to eat,
- good-tasting,
- goody,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- gustable,
- gusty,
- immaculate,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- juicy,
- kickshaw,
- kosher,
- light,
- lightweight,
- likable,
- lovely,
- luscious,
- lush,
- manna,
- mignon,
- mincing,
- morsel,
- namby-pamby,
- neat,
- nectar,
- nectareous,
- nectarous,
- nice,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- of gourmet quality,
- overrefined,
- palatable,
- papery,
- particular,
- pasteboardy,
- perceptive,
- pernickety,
- persnickety,
- pleasing,
- polished,
- pretty,
- pubescent,
- puny,
- pure,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- recherche,
- refined,
- ritually pure,
- sapid,
- satin,
- satiny,
- savorous,
- savory,
- scrumptious,
- select,
- sensitive,
- shattery,
- shiny,
- silky,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- smooth,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- soft,
- sophisticated,
- spotless,
- squeamish,
- stainless,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- succulent,
- superior,
- sweet,
- sweetmeat,
- tacky,
- tahar,
- tasty,
- tender,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-spun,
- tidbit,
- titbit,
- toothsome,
- treat,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsubstantial,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- yummy
- tacky
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- (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish" related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- base,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- blowsy,
- blowzy,
- boggy,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- broken-down,
- brummagem,
- bulldogged,
- bulldoggish,
- bulldoggy,
- bullheaded,
- careless,
- cheap,
- cheap-jack,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clingy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- coarse,
- cobwebby,
- common,
- crude,
- crumbly,
- curdled,
- dainty,
- damp,
- dampish,
- dank,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- dewy,
- dilapidated,
- dingy,
- doughy,
- dowdy,
- down-at-heel,
- down-at-the-heels,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- effeminate,
- faded,
- fenny,
- flimsy,
- fourth-class,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frayed,
- frazzled,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- full of holes,
- gaudy,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gone to seed,
- gooey,
- gossamery,
- grubby,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- heavy,
- holey,
- humid,
- in rags,
- in shreds,
- in tatters,
- incorrect,
- inelegant,
- inferior,
- informal,
- inspissated,
- irregular,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- light,
- lightweight,
- loose,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- lumpen,
- marshy,
- mean,
- messy,
- moist,
- mucilaginous,
- muggy,
- mussy,
- namby-pamby,
- negligent,
- obstinate,
- out-of-date,
- outmoded,
- paltry,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- pasty,
- patchy,
- persistent,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- puny,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- rainy,
- ratty,
- ropy,
- roric,
- roriferous,
- ruinous,
- run-down,
- scraggly,
- scruffy,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- seedy,
- self-adhesive,
- shabby,
- shattery,
- shoddy,
- sissified,
- slabby,
- slack,
- slatternly,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slimy,
- slipshod,
- slithery,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sluttish,
- sordid,
- squalid,
- starchy,
- stickable,
- sticky,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- stubborn,
- swampy,
- syrupy,
- tasteless,
- tattered,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- threadbare,
- tinny,
- torn,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- unbecoming,
- undried,
- unkempt,
- unneat,
- unsightly,
- unsubstantial,
- unsuitable,
- untidy,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- vulgar,
- wet,
- wettish,
- wispy,
- womanish
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