tenuous

[US]/ˈtenjuəs/
[UK]/ˈtenjuəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking a firm basis; flimsy; very weak or slight; of little significance

Phrases & Collocations

tenuous connection

tenuous evidence

tenuous relationship

Example Sentences

a tenuous nylon rope

a tenuous line of argument

the tenuous air at a great height

He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.

the tenuous link between interest rates and investment.

keeping the tenuous thread of life attached to a dying body.

pedicel tenuous, 6-8 mm, glabrous, base with multicolumn deltoid scales.

Working on a comparable timescale, SIM should provide positional information for a subsample of faint stars, thereby probing the most tenuous star streams.

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