tenuous
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adjective- 1.
Thin in substance or consistency.
The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection.
Đồng nghĩa: delicate, gossamer, breakable, delicate, flimsy, fragile, frail, frailsome, frangible, slim, tenuous
- 2.
Insubstantial.
His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
Đồng nghĩa: ethereal, airy, aery, ethereal, immaterial, insubstantial, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial
- 3.
Precarious, dependent upon unreliable things.
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Irregularly formed from tenuis + -ous. Compare tenuious.