AllWords.com Home

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

  
Definitions
tenuous Twit Definition of tenuous Share Definition of tenuous on Facebook Digg:Definition of tenuous! stumble Definition of tenuous Bookmark Definition of tenuous on Delicious submit Definition of tenuous to reddit Bookmark Definition of tenuous
adjective 
  1. thin, Thin in substance or importance.
His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how it was.
Translations: 
    Etymology: From Latin tenuosus, from tenere ("to hold") + suffix -osus

         Source Definition of tenuous
      

     Find:
      Words Starting With:
      Words Ending With:
      Words Containing:
      Words That Match:

     
     Translate Into:
      
    Dutch   French   German
      
    Italian   Spanish
        Show results per page.

    Google
     

    Browse the Dictionary
    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

     
      green quotes and commentary

       
    Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License
    Allwords Copyright 1998-2009 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.