tenuity
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tenuous (ˈtɛnjʊəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | insignificant or flimsy: a tenuous argument |
| 2. | slim, fine, or delicate: a tenuous thread |
| 3. | diluted or rarefied in consistency or density: a tenuous fluid |
| [C16: from Latin tenuis] | |
| tenuity | |
| —n | |
| 'tenuousness | |
| —n | |
| 'tenuously | |
| —adv | |
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Tenuity
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
And in this they have but carried to its extreme tenuity the disposition of the romantic poets, their forbears.
He proposes, therefore, to be the first to point out the extreme tenuity of the thread connecting this preface with his drama.
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