cardboard

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   figurativeSomething flat or insubstantial.

   According to these keyboard warriors, the young men and women who survived the shooting are part of a big hoax, are liars, are mere cardboard cutouts – “crisis actors” who roam the country looking for mass shootings from which to promote their anti-gun message – all being pushed forward by the giant liberal machine that is Hillary Clinton’s robot attack army.

3. 3

   Synonym of African nutmeg (“Pycnanthus angolensis”).

adjective

1. 1

   Made of or resembling cardboard.

   The thing really looked quite cardboard.

   MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.

2. 2

   figurativeFlat or flavorless.

   The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.

   […]a conventional historical drama -- one of those event-crammed sagas featuring a beautiful, plucky heroine, a mysterious, elusive lover and a cardboard supporting cast of thousands.

   While Lensky’s character is quite cardboard, Onegin’s manipulations and lack of ability to call off the duel because he fears society’s jibes, Lensky’s youth and naivety, and Tatiana’s reaction to the duel lend the event its gravity.

Forms

plural

cardboards