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

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.

Slight, of little substance (tenuous connection).

(ofa distinction etc.) oversubtle.

Thin, slender, small.

Rarefied.

Tenuously adv. tenuousness n. [L tenuis]