Tenuous
['tenjʊəs] or ['tɛnjuəs]
Definition
(adj.) very thin in gauge or diameter; 'a tenuous thread' .
(adj.) having thin consistency; 'a tenuous fluid' .
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Definition
(a.) Thin; slender; small; minute.
(a.) Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
(a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
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Examples
- That vision, faint and tenuous as it was, had kept him from thinking of other women. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was extremely tenuous and only noticeable against the opening which led to daylight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Air is more dense at the surface of the earth, and becomes continually more rarified as the altitude increases, until it becomes an indefinitely tenuous ether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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