Tenuous \Ten"u*ous\, a. [L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf.
Tenuis.]
1. Thin; slender; small; minute.
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2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tenuous
adj 1: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse";
"slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
[syn: flimsy, slight, thin]
2: having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid"
3: very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"
WordNet (r) 2.0
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenuous":
adulterated, aerial, air-built, airy, aloof, atomic, attenuate,
attenuated, boyish, broken, chimerical, cloud-built, corpuscular,
cut, dainty, delicate, detached, diaphanous, dilute, diluted,
disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, doubtful, dreamlike,
dubious, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, fanciful, fatuitous,
fatuous, feeble, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile,
frail, gapped, gaseous, gauzy, germinal, girlish, gossamer,
gossamery, gracile, granular, hazy, illusory, imaginary,
impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, incoherent,
inconsistent, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insignificant,
insubstantial, intangible, invisible, lacy, light, microcosmic,
microscopic, misty, molecular, nebulous, negligible, nonadherent,
nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, open, paltry, papery,
phantomlike, rare, rarefied, reedy, shadowy, shaky, sketchy,
slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky,
small, spirituous, subatomic, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike,
thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out,
thinnish, threadlike, trifling, twiggy, ultramicroscopic,
unadhesive, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncompact, uncompressed,
unconnected, unjoined, unreal, unseeable, unsubstantial,
untenacious, vague, vaporous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down,
watery, weak, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
flimsy, slight, thin
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