Usually means: Very weak, slight, or insubstantial.
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  1. tenuous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tenuous: Merriam-Webster
  3. tenuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tenuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tenuous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tenuous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tenuous, tenuous: Wordnik
  8. tenuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tenuous: Wiktionary
  10. tenuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tenuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tenuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tenuous: Dictionary.com
  14. tenuous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tenuous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tenuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tenuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tenuous: Rhymezone
  19. tenuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tenuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tenuous: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tenuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tenuous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tenuous: Legal dictionary

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  1. tenuous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenuous: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenuous: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Thin in substance or consistency.
adjective:  Insubstantial.
adjective:  Precarious, dependent upon unreliable things.

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