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Cardboard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A material similar to thick, stiff paper, that is made of pressed paper pulp or pasted sheets of paper. It is used for making cartons and signs, for example.

adj. Made of or consisting of cardboard.

adj. Flimsy; insubstantial.

adj. Lacking depth; superficial: a movie with only cardboard caricatures of its historical subjects.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes and signs.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A stiff kind of paper made by pasting together two or more thicknesses of paper, drying and pressing; a thin pasteboard.

n. A thin board, with a short handle, 5 inches wide and 12 inches long, to which is fastened card-clothing for carding wool, cotton, and the like by hand.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. without substance

n. a stiff moderately thick paper

Word Usage

"Barbara Olson, a passenger aboard the airliner doomed to be crashed into the Pentagon, was able to telephone her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson; she told him that the hijackers were armed with knives and what she called a cardboard cutter ."

Equivalent

unreal artificial

Cross Reference

paperboard

Form

cardboard box cardboard cutout cardboard cut-out cardboard city

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pasteboard

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

hardboard

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

pasteboard plastic aluminum rubber plywood