Found 2 items, similar to tenuous.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tenuous tenuous adj 1: having little substance or significance; “a flimsy excuse”; “slight evidence”; “a tenuous argument”; “a thin plot” [syn: flimsy, slight, thin] 2: having thin consistency; “a tenuous fluid” 3: very thin in gauge or diameter; “a tenuous thread”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tenuous 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]