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Definition

weak or having little substance

More rarely, tenuous can mean that something is thin in consistency or diameter.

Her reasoning is tenuous at best.

tenuous = weak or having little substance

a tenuous thread
That vision, faint and tenuous as it was, had kept him from thinking of other women.
Wharton, Edith -- The Age of Innocence
A tenuous and sudden memory.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

tenuous = weak or having little substance

And the whole place seemed so tenuous, so temporary.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

tenuous = weak or having little substance

a tenuous fluid
There was a tenuous mist in the distance, and it softened exquisitely the noble lines of the buildings.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
That vision, faint and tenuous as it was, had kept him from thinking of other women.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
She seemed ghostly, her sculptured profile softened by a tenuous blue light, and he realized that she was crying in silence.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
Serena had sent him this e-mail: "John's condition is growing more tenuous.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
I knew that there was something small and tenuous between us, and I didn't want to deal with anything that might change it.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection
Without their even having realized it, their ears had picked it up, very tenuous at the start, but steadily increasing.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
He hovered tenuously between life and death for three days.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
He balked around for a while, said it was all a question of balancin' the equities or something, that I was in an interesting but tenuous position.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
She hadn't moved from the couch even after she'd stopped crying, feeling somehow that the slightest movement would shatter her tenuous composure.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
Not with my mind so tenuous.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
They were meddling with a tenuous balance.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
Maybe it's all the small things— like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day-that stretch out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
The situation at home had become even more tenuous.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
Huge and tenuous at one moment, it would slowly shrink, brightening at the same time as if new fuel was being fed to its internal fires.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End

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