Synonyms for Tenuous | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "tenuous" (180 found)

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Closest matches (36)

Adjective(7 words)

fragile thin brittler brittlest cobwebby delicatedilute concentration

adulterated aerialair builtair-built airy aloof atomic attentive attenuate attenuated boyish broken chimerical cloud-built corpuscular cut dainty delicate desperate detached

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diaphanous dilute diluted disconnected discontinuous discrete doubtful dreamlike

Noun(1 words)

collapsing of civilization

Strong matches (54)

dubious embryonic ethereal evanescent fanciful fatuitous fatuous feeble finefine drawnfine-drawn finespun flimsy fragile frail gapped gaseous gauzy germinal girlish

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Adjective(10 words)

dubious flimsyflimsy argumentfragile entityfragiler gauziest indirect insubstantialloosely relatedmarginal

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

11 entries

conditiondiscourse relationevidentiary statusmaterial characteristicphysical propertyquality of evidenceresource statussemantic relationstatestrength of claimstructural attribute

More specific

11 entries

fragile inferenceloose associationmarginal relevancetenuous alliancetenuous fibertenuous filamenttenuous fundingtenuous market positiontenuous threadunsubstantiated claimweak hypothesis

Collocations

5 entries

tenuous connectiontenuous evidencetenuous foundationtenuous linktenuous relationship

Inflections

2 entries

more tenuousmost tenuous

Derivations

2 entries

tenuously tenuousness

similar

3 entries

insignificant thin unimportant

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Relations are tenuous as peace talks resume between warring factions.

Source: tatoeba (278697)

The greatest wisdom has no shape; the greatest vessel is the latest to be completed; the greatest music has the most tenuous notes.

Source: tatoeba (720854)

Swadesh's glottochronology was based on the tenuous thesis that all languages have a core vocabulary that undergoes replacement at a constant rate.

Source: tatoeba (2085160)

You were trying to draw an extremely tenuous connection between cultures of two cities known for their animosity.

Source: tatoeba (2657217)

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Tenuous