flimsily
adverb
flimsily is an adverb meaning “In a flimsy manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-I-M-S-I-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flimsily mean?
adverb
- 1
In a flimsy manner
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flimsily?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flimsily.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flimsily
- more flimsily comparative
- most flimsily superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flimsily?
Flimsily appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flimsily come from?
From flimsy + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).