tenuously


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ten·u·ous

 (tĕn′yo͞o-əs)
adj.
1.
a. Weak or insubstantial; flimsy: a tenuous argument; a tenuous link between pieces of evidence.
b. Precarious or insecure: tenuous survival.
2. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands.
3. Having a thin consistency: Pluto's tenuous envelope of gas.
[Latin tenuis; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]
ten′u·ous·ly adv.
ten′u·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.tenuously - in a tenuous manner; "his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars"
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tenuously

[ˈtenjʊəslɪ] ADV [linked, connected] → vagamente
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tenuously

adv (= slightly) → schwach, leicht; another world, connected to reality only tenuously → eine andere Welt, nur schwach mit der Realität verbunden
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