Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tenuous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tenuous \Ten"u*ous\, a. [L. tenuis thin. See {Thin}, and cf.
{Tenuis}.]
1. Thin; slender; small; minute.
2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tenuous
adj 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"
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