tenuous
Speech parts
1. tenuous - Adjective
2. tenuous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Thin; slender; small; minute.
Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
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slight evidence
a tenuous argument
a thin plot
a fragile claim to fame
a tenuous thread
a tenuous fluid