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Definition of tenuous:

Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
Rare; subtile; not dense; - said of fluids.
Thin; slender; small; minute.

Synonyms:

keen, fragile, elegant, insubstantial, exquisite, polished, dainty, nice, smooth, splendid, small, light, little, thin, minute, pure, comminuted, clear, frail, svelte, unconvincing, gauzy, sparse, slight, refined, weak, feeble, insubstantial, strong, excellent, sensitive, flimsy, subtile, sharp, clarified, delicate, handsome, beautiful.

narrow (part of speech: adjective)
- scrawny,
- tight,
- fine,
- skeletal,
- skinny,
- lean,
- willowy,
- narrow,
- thin,
- slender,
- slim,
- lanky
wispy (part of speech: adjective)
- gossamer,
- fine,
- rare,
- subtle,
- wispy,
- ethereal
unsubstantial (part of speech: adjective)
- impalpable,
- null,
- spectral,
- empty,
- intangible,
- weightless,
- unreal,
- ethereal,
- chimerical,
- phantasmal,
- vacuous,
- illusory,
- inessential,
- apparitional,
- immaterial,
- unsubstantial,
- unconcrete,
- vacant,
- nonexistence,
- insignificance

Usage examples:

Something began to glimmer in my mind- the vaguest, most tenuous shadow of an idea; a tantalizing, hide- and- seek phantom of a thought.

- "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler.
I feel a lassitude, a debility and abandonment of the will so great- I am so ready to weep for tenderness when I see a little flower, when I contemplate the ray, mysterious, tenuous, and swift, of a remote star- that it almost makes me afraid.

- "Pepita Ximenez", Juan Valera.
And it had almost no tail; it was only a gigantic, tenuous ghost, with a core of stone and magnetic iron fragments.

- "Comet's Burial", Raymond Zinke Gallun.