TENUOUS


Meaning of TENUOUS in English

adj. 1 slight, of little substance (tenuous connection). 2 (of a distinction etc.) oversubtle. 3 thin, slender, small. 4 rarefied. tenuously adv. tenuousness n.

[ L tenuis ]

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