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Definition
weak or having little substance
- I was sick, enervated, depressed, losing my tenuous hold on reality.
- I now had some freedom, tenuous though it was.
- It brought a tenuous peace, a strange existence that in its outward particulars was easier, calmer, safer, but where the tensions ran deeper.
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