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Definition of Tenuous

1. Adjective. Having thin consistency. "A tenuous fluid"

2. Adjective. Very thin in gauge or diameter. "A tenuous thread"

3. Adjective. Lacking substance or significance. "A fragile claim to fame"

Definition of Tenuous

1. a. Thin; slender; small; minute.

Definition of Tenuous

1. Adjective. Thin in substance or consistency. ¹

2. Adjective. Lacking importance. ¹

3. Adjective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tenuous

1. having little substance or strength [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenuous

tentwort tenty tenuazonic acid tenue tenues tenuiexenous tenuifolious tenuin tenuious tenuiroster

tenuirostral tenuirostres tenuis tenuities tenuity tenuous (current term) tenuously tenuousness tenuousnesses tenurable

tenure tenure-track tenure track tenured tenureless tenures tenuretrack tenurial tenurially tenuring

Literary usage of Tenuous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Around this tenuous plot is arranged a whole gallery of word-paintings, brilliantly colored and elaborated in detail. The work is suffused with tints of ..."

2. Political Control, Human Rights, and the UN Mission in Cambodia by Dinah PoKempner (1992)
"Certainly, die guarantee of basic human rights, such as freedom of movement, speech and association, will be far more tenuous in a country still at war than ..."

3. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1892)
"tenuous plot. Out of the 600 pages of " La Débâcle," quite 500 are given up to the march of a French army corps from Mulhouse to Sedan, where the drama ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Thin, subtile, tenuous, attenuated. 6. Exquisite, nice, refined. 7. Excellent, superior, very good. S. Brilliant, accomplished. 10. ..."

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