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tenuous

adjective

1 tenuous

Having thin consistency.

2 tenuous

Very thin in gauge or diameter.

3 tenuous

Lacking substance or significance:
— A tenuous argument.

synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, thin.

Roget 322: rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light etc. 320; cavernous, spongy etc. ... show more


Moby thesaurus: adulterated, aerial, air-built, airy, aloof, atomic, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, broken, chimerical, cloud-built, corpuscular, cut, dainty, delicate, detached, diaphanous, dilute, diluted ... show more.

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