Tenuous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENUOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• thin, slight, insubstantial, also TENUIOUS
• very weak or slight
• very slender or fine; insubstantial
• slight or flimsy
• Thin; slender; small; minute.
• Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
• Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
• having thin consistency
• very thin in gauge or diameter
• lacking substance or significance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having little substance or strength

Words related to TENUOUS

tenuious8 tenuities9 tenuity10 tenuously12

Words that contain TENUOUS

tenuously12 tenuousness11 tenuousnesses13

How to use TENUOUS in a sentence

• Tenuous shadows commenced to dance across the walls.
• But we looked to Solon for a more tenuous subtlety.
• From the timber on the opposite shore came a tenuous smoke skein.
• Braithwaite is the author of two volumes of verses, lyrics of delicate and tenuous beauty.
• The dream of the ultimate brain had receded into a tenuous haze far in the background of his thoughts.
• Odd-looking oriental vessels, long-necked jars, jugs with tenuous spouts and squat bowls possessing engraved and figured covers emerged from the shadows of niches.
• Something incredibly soft, tenuous, clinging, pressed at once against his face.
• The quality of mercy was with him tenuous and weak.
• Faint on the evening Tenuous and far As the beauty shaken From a vagrant star, Throbbed the ache and passion Of an old guitar.
• It was only a pearl-pale wraith, almost formless, too tenuous to be touched by her hands, and too aloof to be spoken to.
• Amongst these people Ellen felt herself, with her perpetual tearful desire that everybody should be nice, to be a tenuous and transparent thing.
• From the chimneys above the rime-checkered slates of the harbour houses a hundred smoke-plumes stood tenuous and erect, like fastidious and honest souls, in the crystalline air.
• We were left, to the best of our knowledge, a tenuous bulwark against the German hosts.
• Daddy John was beyond her in the sun, his sere old body, from which time had stripped the flesh, leaving only a tenuous bark of muscle, was impervious to the heat.
• At one end of the scale we have the excessively tenuous nebulae, the luminosity of which, mysterious in its origin, resembles the electric glow in our vacuum tubes.
• But such is the coercive power of gold, albeit in the abstract, that this tenuous vision of wealth had its fascination.
• I knew that my one tenuous thread of hope lay in launching myself into that wild flood that was tearing through into the cove.
• The close-compacted lights beneath commenced to sprinkle out into tenuous dots.
• Below and on either side of him, nothing but tenuous fog.
• He wanted to once again hold something tenuous and fragile in the palm of his hand as a child would a tinctured caterpillar, the butterfly.
• Her foundation, she told herself, was not as tenuous as this.
• He found himself a sterilized dictator acting in an atmosphere too tenuous to support his vitality but sufficient to preserve it from extinction.
• Probably the same influence that separated it into parts, separated the particles till too thin and tenuous to be seen.
• Stray items from a speech in Richmond suggest the tenuous quality of these campaign utterances.
• The tree builds most of its solid substance from the mobile and tenuous air.

Similar words containing TENUOU without suffix s

tenuously12 tenuousness11 tenuousnesses13

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