English-Finnish translations for tenuous

• hatara
  Kuitenkin tähän saakka kaupan ja yritysten yhteiskuntavastuun yhteys on ollut parhaimmillaankin hatara ja väittelyä riittää. Yet up till now, the link between trade and corporate social responsibility has been tenuous at best, and arguments abound.
  Hökkeli vaikuttaa kovin hataralta.
  Minulla on siitä vain hatara muistikuva.
• puutteellinen
  puutteellinen huomiokyky

Definition of tenuous

• Thin in substance or consistency
• Insubstantial

Examples

• The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands
• Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldnt find a pair with even the most tenuous connection
• His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was

Related words

• attenuate
• attenuation
• attenuator
• tenure
• hypotenuse
• attenuating
• extenuate
• extenuation
• tenuto