tenuously

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adverb

In a tenuous manner.

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Meanings

adverbtenuously (comparative more tenuously, superlative most tenuously)

comparative more tenuously · superlative most tenuously

  1. In a tenuous manner.
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    It is a world where nothing is lost, where all is accounted for and yet the mystery of things is preserved; a world where they may live, however briefly, however tenuously, in the failing evening of the self, solitary and yet together somehow here in this place, dying as they may be and yet fixed forever in a luminous, unending instant.

    1993, John Banville, Ghosts

Origin

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APA

tenuously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tenuously

MLA

“tenuously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tenuously. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tenuously,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tenuously.

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