English-Thai Dictionary
tenuous
ADJ ที่ ไม่สำคัญ ที่ แทบจะ ไม่ มีความหมาย ซึ่ง ไม่มี สาระ slight insubstantial ti-mai-sam-kan
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TENUOUS
a.[L. tenuis. ] Thin; small; minute. 1. Rare.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
TENUOUS
Ten "u *ous, a. Etym: [L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf. Tenuis. ]
1. Thin; slender; small; minute.
2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
Defn: Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
New American Oxford Dictionary
tenuous
ten u ous |ˈtenyo͞oəs ˈtenjuəs | ▶adjective very weak or slight: the tenuous link between interest rates and investment. • very slender or fine; insubstantial: a tenuous cloud. DERIVATIVES ten u ous ly adverb, ten u ous ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: formed irregularly from Latin tenuis ‘thin ’ + -ous .
Oxford Dictionary
tenuous
tenu |ous |ˈtɛnjʊəs | ▶adjective very weak or slight: the tenuous link between interest rates and investment. • very slender or fine; insubstantial: a tenuous cloud. DERIVATIVES tenuously adverb, tenuousness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: formed irregularly from Latin tenuis ‘thin ’ + -ous .
American Oxford Thesaurus
tenuous
tenuous adjective 1 a tenuous connection: slight, insubstantial, meager, flimsy, weak, doubtful, dubious, questionable, suspect; vague, nebulous, hazy. ANTONYMS convincing, strong. 2 a tenuous thread: fine, thin, slender, delicate, wispy, gossamer, fragile. ANTONYMS thick, strong.
Oxford Thesaurus
tenuous
tenuous adjective 1 evidence that greenhouse warming had started was at best tenuous: slight, insubstantial, flimsy, negligible, weak, fragile, shaky, sketchy, doubtful, dubious, questionable, suspect; vague, nebulous, hazy, unspecific, indefinite, indeterminate. ANTONYMS convincing, substantial, strong. 2 a tenuous thread: fine, thin, slender, attenuated, delicate, gossamer, fragile. ANTONYMS thick.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
tenuous
ten u ous /ténjuəs /形容詞 1 〈関係 つながりなどが 〉薄い, もろい ; 〈理由などが 〉薄弱な, 取るに足りない .2 ｟文 ｠きわめて細い [薄い ], もろい ; 〈空気が 〉希薄な .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞
The Wordsmith Dictionary