Crossword-Solution: TENUOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tenuous | a. | Thin; slender; small; minute. |
| Tenuous | a. | Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids. |
| Tenuous | a. | Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “TENUOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| having thin consistency | 1 answer |
| Weak, as a mental grasp | 1 answer |
| Weak argument | 1 answer |
| Slim, delicate | 1 answer |
| Rather remote in reasoning | 1 answer |
| Lacking a sound basis | 1 answer |
| Flimsy, as an argument | 1 answer |
| Flimsy argument | 1 answer |
| Flimsey | 1 answer |
| Very weak | 2 answers |
| Unsubstantiated | 2 answers |
| Hanging by a thread. | 4 answers |
| Extremely thin | 6 answers |
| Lacking Substance | 10 answers |
| A WEAK OR SHAM ARGUMENT SET UP TO BE EASILY REFUTED | 10 answers |
| Jejune | 26 answers |
| Implaus-ible | 30 answers |
| Unsubstantial | 31 answers |
| Slender | 49 answers |
| flimsy | 68 answers |
| Rare | 76 answers |
| Ineffectual | 79 answers |
| insubstantial | 81 answers |
| Weak | 86 answers |
| shaky | 86 answers |
| Thin __ | 87 answers |
| Uncertain | 100 answers |
| Slight | 101 answers |
| Fine ___ | 103 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TENUOUS (5)
JOHNSON and Charles TAYLOR are challenging the Sawyer government's legitimacy while observing a tenuous cease fire; the former president, Gen.
JOHNSON and Charles TAYLOR are challenging the SAWYER government's legitimacy while observing a tenuous cease-fire; the former president, Gen.
The physical reason for this is that the incredibly tenuous ionized gas which does the reflecting has a molasses-like viscosity.
She seemed suddenly to have dissolved into the tenuous substance of a dream, and as he continued to gaze upon her, she faded slowly from his sight.
Her full bright presence, through which the currents of life flowed so warmly, had grown as tenuous as a shadow, and he saw so far beyond her-- Presently she rose and began to move about the room.
Quotes with TENUOUS (3)
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.
She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?
There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief — and even death.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1982–2025).