1 so weak or uncertain that it hardly exists:
a tenuous hold on life * His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous.
2 extremely thin and easily broken:
the tenuous threads of a spider's web
tenuously adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tenuous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tenuous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tenuous is tagged as adjective.
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