tenuious
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tenuious (comparative more tenuious, superlative most tenuious)
- (archaic) Rare or subtle; tenuous.
- 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
- more tenuious Substance , as was above observed , than that very igneous Substance mentioned in the third Proposition
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- A tenuious emanation or continued effluvium, which after some distance retracteth into itself; as is observable in drops of syrups, oil, and seminal viscosities […]
Usage notes edit
- Though the correct Latinate formation, this word has been largely supplanted by the irregularly formed tenuous.