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Definition of Tenuious
1. a. Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.
Definition of Tenuious
1. slender [adj] - See also: slender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenuious
Literary usage of Tenuious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... and remain fuf- pended at a greater height, and thus they are rendered more
tenuious ; and being ..."
2. A Voyage to South America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns by Antonio de Ulloa, John Adams (1806)
"So that these consequently being the most subtile or tenuious, on having passed
that region, the celerity with which they were before carried upwards is ..."
3. A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns by Antonio de Ulloa (1758)
"... at a greater height, and thus they are rendered more tenuious, and being ...
or tenuious, on having parted that region, the celerity with which they ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"2. rare, rarefied, crude (rare), exile (archaic), subtle or (now rare) subtile,
tenuous (literary or formal), tenuious (rare), unsubstantial (contextual). ..."
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