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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Tenuous \Ten"u*ous\, a. [L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf. Tenuis.] 1. Thin; slender; small; minute. [1913 Webster] 2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]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) 2.0 : [ 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"From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
tenuous Αγγλικά a. ισχνόςFrom English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
tenuous a. 1 Thin in substance or consistency. 2 insubstantial.From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
tenuous a. 1 Thin in substance or consistency. 2 insubstantial.From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
tenuous a. 1 Thin in substance or consistency. 2 insubstantial.From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
tenuous a. 1 Thin in substance or consistency. 2 insubstantial.From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
tenuous Englanti a. ohut, harvaFrom Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
tenuous Engelska a. tunn, finFrom English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ ضعيفFrom English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
tenuous //ˈtɛn.ju.əs//From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]1. несъществен insubstantial 2. слаб, тънък thin in substance or consistency
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]slabý
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]tenký
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ dünn, feinFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ [fig.] schwach, unbedeutendFrom English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ λεπτός, ισχνόςFrom English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
tenuous //ˈtɛn.ju.əs//From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]hatara, puutteellinen thin in substance or consistency
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]1. पतला "It is a tenuous creeper and it needs a support."
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ beznačajan, prorijeđen, razrijeđen, slab, tanakFrom English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ 1. finom 2. túlságosan finom 3. lényegtelen 4. erôtlen 5. ritka 6. híg 7. vékonyFrom English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
tenuous /ˈtenjʊəs/From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]1. wątły 2. subtelny, słaby
tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ 1. ince, narin 2. ince uzun 3. seyrek, hafif 4. yerleşmemiş, yüzeyde kalan. tenu'ity incelik 5. seyreklik. tenuously seyrek seyrek, hafifçe. tenuousness seyreklik, hafiflik.From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈtɛnjəwəs/
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, wispyFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 稀薄的,微细的;From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 稀薄的,微细的,纤细的,脆弱的