What are the opposite words for tenuously?

The word "tenuously" means thinly or weakly, and its antonyms are robustly, sturdily, and strongly. Robustly means having a strong and healthy constitution, while sturdily refers to something that is solid and well-built. Strongly means having a great force or power behind it. Additionally, other antonyms for tenuously include firmly, securely, and steadfastly. Firmly means in a manner that is securely fixed in place, while securely indicates that something is safely and firmly attached or protected. Steadfastly, on the other hand, refers to something that is firmly and unwaveringly fixed in place or unyielding.

What are the antonyms for Tenuously?

• adv.

  • lightly
  • Difficultly
  ,
  • effortfully
  ,
  • heavily
  ,
  • roughly
  ,
  • uncarefully
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Usage examples for Tenuously

Famous quotes with Tenuously

• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford - Timescape
• Tagore claims that the first time he experienced the thrill of poetry was when he encountered the children’s rhyme ‘’ (‘Rain falls / The leaf trembles') in Iswarchandra Vidyasagar’s Bengali primer (Introducing the Alphabet). There are at least two revealing things about this citation. The first is that, as Bengali scholars have remarked, Tagore’s memory, and predilection, lead him to misquote and rewrite the lines. The actual rhyme is in , or ‘high’ Bengali: ‘’ (‘Rain falleth / the leaf trembleth’). This is precisely the sort of diction that Tagore chose for the English , which, with its thees and thous, has so tried our patience. Yet, as a Bengali poet, Tagore’s instinct was to simplify, and to draw language closer to speech. The other reason the lines of the rhyme are noteworthy, especially with regard to Tagore, is – despite their deceptively logical progression – their non-consecutive character. ‘Rain falls’ and ‘the leaf trembles’ are two independent, stand-alone observations: they don’t necessarily have to follow each other. It’s a feature of poetry commented upon by William Empson in : that it’s a genre that can get away with seamlessly joining two lines which are linked, otherwise, tenuously.

  Amit Chaudhuri

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