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Synonyms for tenuous
ˈtɛn yu əsten·u·ous
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
tenuous
Fine (Latin finis, end) denotes that which has been brought to a full end, finished. From this root-sense many derived meanings branch out, causing words quite remote from each other to be alike synonyms of fine. That which is truly finished, brought to an ideal end, is excellent of its kind, and beautiful, if a thing that admits of beauty; as, a fine house, fine trees, a fine woman, a fine morning; if a thing that admits of the removal of impurities, it is not finished till these are removed, and hence fine signifies clarified, clear, pure, refined; as, fine gold. That which is finished is apt to be polished, smooth to the touch, minutely exact in outline; hence fine comes to be a synonym for all words like dainty, delicate, exquisite; as, fine manners, a fine touch, fine perceptions. As that which is delicate is apt to be small, by an easy extension of meaning fine becomes a synonym for slender, slight, minute, comminuted; as, a fine thread, fine sand; or for filmy, tenuous, thin; as, a fine lace, fine wire; and as a thin edge is keen, sharp, fine becomes also a synonym for these words; as, a fine point, a fine edge. Compare BEAUTIFUL; MINUTE.
Synonyms:
beautiful, clarified, clear, comminuted, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fine, gauzy, handsome, keen, minute, nice, polished, pure, refined, sensitive, sharp, slender, slight, small, smooth, splendid, subtile, subtle, thinAntonyms:
big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick
Princeton's WordNet
tenuousadjective
having thin consistency
"a tenuous fluid"
Synonyms:
fragile, thin, flimsy, slightAntonyms:
thick, important, significanttenuousadjective
very thin in gauge or diameter
"a tenuous thread"
Synonyms:
fragile, thin, flimsy, slightAntonyms:
important, thick, significantflimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thinadjective
lacking substance or significance
"slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"
Synonyms:
slender, delicate, slight, sparse, slim, fragile, lean, frail, thin, flimsy, little(a), svelte, unconvincingAntonyms:
important, thick, significant
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List of paraphrases for "tenuous":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#350 | small | |
#907 | clear | |
#1114 | fine | |
#1157 | nice | |
#1353 | excellent | |
#1397 | beautiful | |
#1981 | minute | |
#3091 | sharp | |
#3337 | pure | |
#3826 | sensitive | |
#3880 | smooth | |
#4349 | thin | |
#4981 | weak | |
#6109 | elegant | |
#6310 | slim | |
#7516 | slight | |
#8525 | lean | |
#8685 | refined | |
#9217 | keen | |
#9513 | polished | |
#9840 | subtle | |
#11658 | delicate | |
#12059 | handsome | |
#13127 | exquisite | |
#14236 | fragile | |
#15458 | splendid | |
#19025 | sparse | |
#19839 | clarified | |
#19918 | slender | |
#32523 | frail | |
#37328 | precarious | |
#42465 | dainty | |
#44059 | flimsy | |
#47843 | tenuous | |
#74245 | unconvincing | |
#96818 | svelte | |
#162538 | gauzy | |
#186190 | comminuted | |
#206784 | subtile |
How to use tenuous in a sentence?
While you're in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it's almost out of focus. So you begin scanning your life looking for something interesting or beautiful. But all you see is ordinary people assembled in their tiny classrooms and workspaces, each of us moving around in little steps, like tokens on a game board.
The diffuse ISM was historically considered too harsh and tenuous an environment for appreciable abundances of large molecules to occur, prior to the detection of C60, the largest known molecules in space were only 12 atoms in size. Our confirmation of C60 + shows just how complex astrochemistry can get, even in the lowest density, most strongly ultraviolet-irradiated environments in the Galaxy.
That's why we flew with tanker aircraft - militarized airliner with extra gas - to provide that tenuous communications link and extra gas should we experience aircraft malfunctions.
This may only buy 180 more days to reach a deal on Patriot, while S-400 is deployed, and Turkey is removed from the F-35 consortium, the end result is, in a best case scenario for Turkey, a tenuous waiver from sanctions, an angry Congress, and a future without an aircraft Ankara has paid well over a billion dollars to procure.
Many of us don’t live with our grandparents anymore, with each generation, the traditions and the superstitions and what you’re supposed to eat and do gets a little bit more tenuous.
Translations for tenuous
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- tènueCatalan, Valencian
- tenkýCzech
- spinkelDanish
- dünnGerman
- λεπτόςGreek
- tenueSpanish
- نازکPersian
- puutteellinen, hatara, heikkoFinnish
- ténuFrench
- क्षुद्रHindi
- vékonyHungarian
- lemahIndonesian
- tenueItalian
- קָלוּשׁHebrew
- 希薄なJapanese
- 얇은Korean
- tenuisLatin
- dunnetjes, onbelangrijk, vaagDutch
- tynnNorwegian
- cieniutkiPolish
- ténuePortuguese
- rarefiatRomanian
- жидкий, разре, тонкийRussian
- svagSwedish
- நுட்பமானவைTamil
- ความผอมบางThai
- inceTurkish
- розрідUkrainian
- کمزورUrdu
- mỏng mảnhVietnamese
- teneWalloon
- טענואָוסYiddish
- 纖細Chinese
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