Tenable
['tenəb(ə)l]
Definition
(adj.) based on sound reasoning or evidence; 'well-founded suspicions' .
Checker: Mandy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
Inputed by Frances
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Defensible, capable of being held or defended.
Typist: Trevor
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Maintainable, defensible, justifiable, sound, reasonable, consistent
ANT:Untenable, indefensible, unjustifiable, weak, hollow, fallacious, unreasonable,inconsistent, irrational, absurd
Inputed by Heinrich
Definition
adj. capable of being retained kept or defended.—ns. Tenabil′ity Ten′ableness the state or quality of being tenable.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- But when she was in conversation with Mrs. Plymdale that comforting explanation seemed no longer tenable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I ask you now, is such a theory tenable? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is for the sciences to say what generalizations are tenable about the world and what they specifically are. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Susan