Crossword-Solution: TENUOUS 7 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
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
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
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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.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
JOHNSON and Charles TAYLOR are challenging the SAWYER government's legitimacy while observing a tenuous cease-fire; the former president, Gen.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
The physical reason for this is that the incredibly tenuous ionized gas which does the reflecting has a molasses-like viscosity.
The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008
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.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1995

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.
Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones
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?
Sage Steadman Upon Destiny's Song
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.
Priscille Sibley The Promise of Stardust
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1982–2025).