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11tenuous — [[t]te̱njuəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe something such as a connection, a reason, or someone s position as tenuous, you mean that it is very uncertain or weak. The cultural and historical links between the many provinces were seen to be very …
12tenuous — adjective a) Thin in substance or consistency. The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands. b) Lacking importance. His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was …
13tenuous — adjective 1 tenuous link/relationship/evidence a link etc that seems weak or doubtful: a tenuous link with my past 2 literary very thin and easily broken tenuously adverb tenuousness noun (C) …
14tenuous — adjective 1) a tenuous connection Syn: slight, insubstantial, meager, flimsy, weak, doubtful, dubious, questionable, suspect; vague, nebulous, hazy Ant: convincing, strong 2) …
15tenuous — adj. Tenuous is used with these nouns: ↑connection, ↑grasp, ↑grip, ↑hold, ↑link …
16tenuous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsubstantial, flimsy; thin, slender; rarefied. See narrowness, rarity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Slender] Syn. slim, fine, narrow; see thin 2 , 5 . 2. [Flimsy] Syn. insubstantial, slight,… …
17tenuous — ten|u|ous [ tenjuəs ] adjective weak and likely to change: a tenuous agreement/connection ╾ ten|u|ous|ly adverb ╾ ten|u|ous|ness noun uncount …
18tenuous — [16] Tenuous comes from the same ultimate ancestor as thin. It is an alteration of an earlier and now defunct tenuious, which was adapted from Latin tenuis ‘thin’. And this went back to the Indo European base *ten ‘stretch’, a variant of which… …
19tenuous — adjective very weak or slight: a tenuous link. ↘very slender or fine. Derivatives tenuously adverb tenuousness noun Origin C16: formed irregularly from L. tenuis thin + ous …
20tenuous — UK [ˈtenjuəs] / US adjective weak and likely to change a tenuous agreement/connection Derived words: tenuously adverb tenuousness noun uncountable …
