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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.
     ισχνός

From 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, harva

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tenuous
     Engelska a.
     tunn, fin

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/
  ضعيف

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  tenuous //ˈtɛn.ju.əs// 
  1. несъществен
  insubstantial
  2. слаб, тънък
  thin in substance or consistency

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ 
  slabý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ 
  tenký

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/
  dünn, fein 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/
   [fig.] schwach, unbedeutend 

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/
  
  λεπτός, ισχνός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  tenuous //ˈtɛn.ju.əs// 
  hatara, puutteellinen
  thin in substance or consistency

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/ 
  1. पतला
        "It is a tenuous creeper and it needs a support."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  tenuous /tˈɛnjuːəs/
  beznačajan, prorijeđen, razrijeđen, slab, tanak

From 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. vékony

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  tenuous /ˈtenjʊəs/ 
   1.  wątły
   2.  subtelny, słaby

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  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 ]

  

/ˈtɛnjəwəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From 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

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