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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tenuous \Ten"u*ous\, adjective [L. tenuis thin. See {Thin}, and cf. {Tenuis}.]
1. Thin; slender; small; minute.
2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tenuous
adjective
1: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot" [syn: {flimsy}, {slight}, {thin}]
2: having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid"
3: very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenuous": adulterated, aerial, air-built, airy, aloof, atomic, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, broken, chimerical, cloud-built, corpuscular, cut, dainty, delicate, detached, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, doubtful, dreamlike, dubious, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feeble, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, gapped, gaseous, gauzy, germinal, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, granular, hazy, illusory, imaginary, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, incoherent, inconsistent, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, lacy, light, microcosmic, microscopic, misty, molecular, nebulous, negligible, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, open, paltry, papery, phantomlike, rare, rarefied, reedy, shadowy, shaky, sketchy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, spirituous, subatomic, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, trifling, twiggy, ultramicroscopic, unadhesive, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncompact, uncompressed, unconnected, unjoined, unreal, unseeable, unsubstantial, untenacious, vague, vaporous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy
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