tenuously

1. 1.

   in a tenuous manner

   “his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars”

Questions about tenuously

What does tenuously mean?

tenuously means "in a tenuous manner".

How many syllables are in tenuously?

tenuously has 4 syllables and divides as te-nu-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is tenuously a common word?

tenuously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.