tenuous
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin tenuis, thin, slight + Eng. suffix -ous
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- SAMPA: /"tEnju@s/
[edit] Adjective
tenuous (comparative more tenuous, superlative most tenuous)
- Thin in substance or consistency.
- The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
- Lacking importance.
- His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
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