Their relationship had always been tenuous, so it wasn't difficult for her to cut her chronically alcoholic sister out of her life completely.
Plans for the picnic are tenuous because it looks like it might rain.
The threads of the spider web were tenuous.Lacking substance or significance, a tenuous argument took place.Your argument is tenuous at best.
The word "tenuous" is an adjective.
The Latin root for the words tenuous and attenuate is the word tenuis meaning thin.
In an advanced or developing country that contains primitive or even small tribal societies, these societies often have a tenuous connection at most to their national governments.
tenuous
"Tenuous"
delicate. flimsy. frail. slight. tenuous. thin.
tenuous, tantrum, thermal, titular
The word "tenuous" appears on page 6 in "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan. It is used to describe a weak and uncertain connection or idea.
He kept telling her that he was too busy with his coursework to spend time with her, and she clung to the tenuous belief that he was telling the truth, even after she saw him walking around campus with other girls.Because the rapist had drugged her with rohypnol (GHB), she was only able to give a tenuous account of the terrible ordeal.She is a supportive friend and a great listener, who will patiently discuss even the most tenuous details and mundane anecdotes I have to share.
Ten is the Latin root word. It means to hold or strain.
if the word's disingenius, then you could say "Listen, genius"