| word | tenuous |
|---|---|
| definition | Having little substance or strength; flimsy, weak. |
| eg_sentence | It's a rather tenuous theory, and the evidence supporting it has been questioned by several researchers. |
| explanation | Something tenuous has been stretched thin and might break at any time. A person with a tenuous hold on his sanity should be watched carefully. If a business is only tenuously surviving, it will probably go bankrupt in the next recession. If there seems to be only a tenuous connection between two crimes, it means the investigators have more work to do. |
| IPA | ˈtɛnjəwəs |
Tags: mwvb::unit:30, mwvb::unit:30:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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