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tenuous
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very weak or insubstantial
Disapproving
Formal
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
qualitative
Superlative
most tenuous
Comparative
more tenuous
gradable
Examples
The connection between the two events was tenuous at best, with little evidence to support it.
Formal
Examples
The spider 's web was so tenuous that even the slightest breeze could break it.
Lexical Tree
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