Definitions
lacking substance or significance
Word origin
Irregularly formed from Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous. Compare tenuious.
Used in a sentence
“The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.”
“Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection.”
“His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Weak and thin”7 letters
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