Mảnh, thanh, mỏng manh (chỉ..)

Có ít thực chất, có ít ý nghĩa, rất mong manh, hời hợt (sự phân biệt..)

tenuous distinctions

những sự phân biệt hời hợt

Ít, loãng (khí...)

Giản dị

mỏng

Adj.

Thin, slender, thin, fine, attenuated, delicate,gossamer, diaphanous, fragile: The spider descended slowly onits tenuous thread.

Flimsy, insubstantial or unsubstantial,paltry, weak, feeble, frail, meagre, vague, negligible,insignificant, trifling, sketchy, hazy, nebulous, dubious,doubtful, shaky: Your case rests on very tenuous evidence.

Adj.

Slight, of little substance (tenuous connection).

(ofa distinction etc.) oversubtle.

Thin, slender, small.

Rarefied.

Tenuously adv. tenuousness n. [L tenuis]