0 A tenuous connection, idea, or situation is weak and possibly does not exist: --
The police have only found a tenuous connection between the two robberies.
1 weak, unimportant, or in doubt: --
A realistic view of language change, according to which child language acquisition is key, highlights the tenuous bearing that structure preservation has on the process.
No one would risk so much money on so tenuous an enterprise.
However, in practice, lines of accountability are more tenuous; they may not be linked or worse, may be nonexistent.
However, the fact that we could only examine a reduced subset of the data for disyllabic verbs makes this interpretation very tenuous.
Still, it is interesting to note that the link between local elections in 2004 and presidential elections two years later is tenuous at best.
What compels individuals and families to coalesce into tenuous factional alliances?
The assertion that the same mechanism overcomes selfish motives by creating altruistic ones is more tenuous.
Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is a tenuous one.
