Synonyms for tenuous

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ten-yoo-uhs

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛn yu əs

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Définition of tenuous

Origin : 1590s, irregularly formed from Latin tenuis "thin," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cf. Sanskrit tanuh "thin," literally "stretched out;" see tenet) + -ous. The correct form with respect to the Latin is tenuious. The sense of "having slight importance, not substantial" is found from c.1817.

adj weak, thin

Example sentences :

And the tenuous message which passed between them then astounded Shann.
Extract from : « Storm Over Warlock » by Andre Norton

The sky was blue, naked except for a tracing of tenuous clouds.
Extract from : « Attrition » by Jim Wannamaker

Again he seemed almost invisible; then gigantic and tenuous.
Extract from : « The Marooner » by Charles A. Stearns

He was clean-shaven, too, and in the English habit he appeared thin and tenuous.
Extract from : « The Fifth Queen Crowned » by Ford Madox Ford

These particles are for the most part composed of tenuous gases.
Extract from : « Your Mind and How to Use It » by William Walker Atkinson

Oh, tenuous light of purity which, once quenched, kindles no more!
Extract from : « Marie Tarnowska » by Annie Vivanti

Some nests are rudely constructed, and rather loose and tenuous.
Extract from : « Nests and Eggs of Birds of The United States » by Thomas G. Gentry

How such a tenuous gas can shine as it does forms another paradox.
Extract from : « Astronomical Curiosities » by J. Ellard Gore

It was too tenuous perhaps for detention or else too obvious.
Extract from : « Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern » by Edgar Saltus

You are compounded of too tenuous and sublimated stuff for motherhood as yet.
Extract from : « The Gateless Barrier » by Lucas Malet

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