Synonym: flimsy, slight, thin. Similar words: ingenuous, continuous, attenuate, superfluous, sumptuous, assiduous, innocuous, ambiguous. Meaning: ['tenjʊəs] 
adj. 1. having little substance or significance 2. having thin consistency 3. very thin in gauge or diameter.
adj. 1. having little substance or significance 2. having thin consistency 3. very thin in gauge or diameter. 
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61 Dau carefully watches the tenuous peace declared in Sudan during 2005.
62 At the moment, al-Qaeda in Iraq is valuable to Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, even though the links between the Qaeda leaders and the jihadi shock troops in Iraq are tenuous.
63 Molecules in the more tenuous upper atmosphere are preferentially scattering blue light.
64 The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.
65 In still do not understand love age, by virtue of a tenuous friendship, carry the world before one close to him, however, know, understand, and even see him for his courage, all lost.
66 It has been suggested that these pressures exacerbated an already tenuous situation, and set the stage for the fomentation of the Civil War.
67 But the Fed's independence is more tenuous than the ECB's.
68 The Sonia connection had been dismissed throughout the 1960 s as too tenuous to be relied upon.
69 Every cubic kilometre of the ring contains around 20 tiny particles of dust, making it so tenuous, it would be invisible from the inside.
70 A shaft of light from a street lamp falls past tenuous bamboo railings onto a figure in a glittering white sari.
71 During interphase the chromosomes are too tenuous to be stained.sentencedict.com/tenuous.html
72 This decision puts the President in a somewhat tenuous position.
73 Wealth and power can be fleeting, family bonds tenuous , status mercurial.
74 The link between anger and injuries has been more tenuous; studies have yielded conflicting results.
75 The most egregious excessive bonus payouts now include a tenuous link to performance.
76 The lemma of rice are formed by the bi-peaked- tubercles (BPT), glume hair and tenuous hair.
More similar words: ingenuous, continuous, attenuate, superfluous, sumptuous, assiduous, innocuous, ambiguous, penurious, incongruous, tempestuous, promiscuous, conspicuous, presumptuous, contentious, pretentious, ostentatious, pretentiousness, menu, avenue, penury, revenue, duodenum, ingenuity, penultimate, renunciation, to the number of, a large number of, tent, often.