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Tenuous vs Noncommittal - What's the difference?

tenuous | noncommittal |

As adjectives the difference between tenuous and noncommittal

is that tenuous is thin in substance or consistency while noncommittal is tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.

tenuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thin in substance or consistency.
    • The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
  • insubstantial
    • His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.

    noncommittal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-commital * noncommital * non-committal

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.
    • The Major's face was noncommittal .
    The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.
  • *1818 , S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany , v. 10, p. 234:
  • *:[He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times.

    • Derived terms

    *noncommittally

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