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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands.
  2. adj. Having a thin consistency; dilute.
  3. adj. Having little substance; flimsy: a tenuous argument.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Thin; small; minute.
  2. Rare; rarefied; fine; subtile.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Thin in substance or consistency.
  2. adj. insubstantial

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Thin; slender; small; minute.
  2. adj. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. very thin in gauge or diameter
  2. adj. having thin consistency
  3. adj. lacking substance or significance

Etymologies

  1. From Latin tenuis ("thin, slight"), + Eng. suffix -ous (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin tenuis; see ten- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bashaba@mail.com asvab - ethereal- unusual lightness Mar 7, 2011

  • Noelle Knight "In the complex relationship between vampire, Were, and human, there was a lot of leeway for something to go wrong somewhere. After all, my plan was thin, and the vampires' hold over Alcide was tenuous." -Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris Feb 5, 2011

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