tenuous

Meaning of tenuous

adjective
  1. Thin in substance or consistency.
    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.
  2. Insubstantial.
    His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.

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Hyphenation of tenuous

ten-u-ous

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
  • tenuous is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

tenuous synonyms

Meaning flimsy:

flimsy, slight, thin

Meaning :

delicate, gossamer, ethereal

Translation of tenuous

Anagrams of tenuous

soutenu

Words that rhyme with tenuous

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