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tenuous
/ˈtɛn.ju.əs/
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What does tenuous mean?
adjective
- Thin in substance or consistency.
- Insubstantial.
- Precarious, dependent upon unreliable things.
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Despite such positive indicators, the country's economic turnaround remains tenuous.
She seemed suddenly to have dissolved into the tenuous substance of a dream, and as he continued to gaze upon her, she faded slowly from his sight.
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The physical basis of all psychic belief is that the soul is a complete duplicate of the body, resembling it in the smallest particular, although constructed in some far more tenuous material.
It is quite possible to conceive a body occupying the position of the earth with reference to the sun which would cast a shadow having such a tenuous form as the Milky Way presents.
This slender, fragile, tenuous thread of brittle carbon, glowing steadily and continuously with a soft light agreeable to the eyes, was the tiny key that opened the door to a world revolutionized in its interior illumination.