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tenuous 音標拼音: [t'ɛnjəwəs] a. 稀薄的,微細的,纖細的,脆弱的 稀薄的,微細的,纖細的,脆弱的 tenuous adj 1: having thin consistency; " a tenuous fluid" 2: very thin in gauge or diameter; " a tenuous thread" 3: lacking substance or significance; " slight evidence"; " a tenuous argument"; " a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame" [ synonym: { flimsy}, { fragile}, { slight}, { tenuous}, { thin}] Tenuous \ Ten" u* ous\, a. [ L. tenuis thin. See { Thin}, and cf. { Tenuis}.] 1. Thin; slender; small; minute. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster] 132 Moby Thesaurus words for " tenuous": adulterated, aerial, air- built, airy, aloof, atomic, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, broken, chimerical, cloud- built, corpuscular, cut, dainty, delicate, detached, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, doubtful, dreamlike, dubious, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feeble, fine, fine- drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, gapped, gaseous, gauzy, germinal, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, granular, hazy, illusory, imaginary, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, incoherent, inconsistent, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, lacy, light, microcosmic, microscopic, misty, molecular, nebulous, negligible, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, open, paltry, papery, phantomlike, rare, rarefied, reedy, shadowy, shaky, sketchy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight- made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, spirituous, subatomic, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, thin, thin- bodied, thin- set, thin- spun, thinned, thinned- out, thinnish, threadlike, trifling, twiggy, ultramicroscopic, unadhesive, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncompact, uncompressed, unconnected, unjoined, unreal, unseeable, unsubstantial, untenacious, vague, vaporous, wasp- waisted, watered, watered- down, watery, weak, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy
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