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tenuously

tenuously adverb: in a tenuous manner.

Adverb

tenuously (comparative more tenuously, superlative most tenuously)

  1. In a tenuous manner.
    • 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...1993, John Banville, Ghosts

tenuously meaning in Tamil

tenuously in Tamil

நுண்மையான

Forms of tenuously

comparativemore tenuously
superlativemost tenuously

Origin of tenuously

From tenuous + -ly.

Questions about tenuously

What does tenuously mean?
Tenuously means in a tenuous manner.
What is tenuously in Tamil?
Tenuously in Tamil is நுண்மையான. See Tenuously meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tenuously?
Tenuously is an adverb.

Words near tenuously in the dictionary

  1. tenukiing
  2. tenukis
  3. tenuosities
  4. tenuosity
  5. tenuous
  6. tenuously
  7. tenuousness
  8. tenurable
  9. tenure
  10. tenure track
  11. tenure-track

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