English
Adjective
tenuous (comparative more tenuous, superlative most tenuous)
- Thin in substance or consistency.
- The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
- insubstantial
- His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
- Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
Translations
thin in substance or consistency
- Catalan: tènue m, f
- Dutch: onbelangrijk (nl), dunnetjes (nl)
- Finnish: hatara, puutteellinen (fi)
- French: ténu (fr)
- German: (please verify)nicht stichhaltig , dünn (de), prekär (de), heikel (de), dürftig (de), fein (de), zart (de), schlank (de), klein (de), spärlich (de), unsicher (de), verdünnt (de)
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insubstantial
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- Russian: несуще́ственный (ru) m (nesuščéstvennyj), несуще́ственная f (nesuščéstvennaja), несуще́ственное n (nesuščéstvennoje)
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