tenuousadjective
uk/ˈten.ju.əs/us/ˈten.ju.əs/A tenuous connection, idea, or situation is weak and possibly does not exist:
The police have only found a tenuous connection between the two robberies.
literary thin, weak, and easily broken
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Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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Fragile and breakable
tenuously
adverb uk/ˈten.ju.əs.li/us/ˈten.ju.əs.li/