TENUOUSLY

tenuously

(adverb) in a tenuous manner; “his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

tenuously (comparative more tenuously, superlative most tenuously)

In a tenuous manner.

Source: Wiktionary


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.

Definition: Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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