Tenuous vs. Unreliable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tenuous and Unreliable
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Definitions
Tenuous
Weak or insubstantial; flimsy
A tenuous argument.
A tenuous link between pieces of evidence.
Unreliable
Marked by or exhibiting a lack of reliability.
Tenuous
Precarious or insecure
Tenuous survival.
Unreliable
Not reliable.
Tenuous
Long and thin; slender
Tenuous strands.
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Unreliable
Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable.
Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable."
Tenuous
Having a thin consistency
Pluto's tenuous envelope of gas.
Unreliable
Liable to be erroneous or misleading;
An undependable generalization
Tenuous
Thin in substance or consistency.
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 couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection.
Unreliable
Not to be trusted
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Tenuous
Insubstantial.
His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
Unreliable
Not worthy of reliance or trust;
In the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable
An undependable assistant
Tenuous
Thin; slender; small; minute.
Unreliable
Dangerously unstable and unpredictable;
Treacherous winding roads
An unreliable trestle
Tenuous
Rare; subtile; not dense; - said of fluids.
Unreliable
Lacking a sense of responsibility
Tenuous
Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
Tenuous
Having little substance or significance;
A flimsy excuse
Slight evidence
A tenuous argument
A thin plot
Tenuous
Having thin consistency;
A tenuous fluid
Tenuous
Very thin in gauge or diameter;
A tenuous thread
