TENABLE Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

tenable

adjective

ˈte-nə-bəl

as in defendable

capable of being defended against physical attack the soldiers' encampment on the open plain was not tenable, so they retreated to higher ground

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as in justifiable

capable of being defended with good reasoning against verbal attack the tenable theory that a giant meteor strike set off a chain of events resulting in the demise of the dinosaurs

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Recent Examples on the Web Some of this may have been prompted by the First and Second World Wars, which resulted in such multitudes of dead—men whose bodies were often unrecoverable—that the old rituals were no longer tenable. —

Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024 But as the virus continues to spread among livestock animals such as cows, relying on mass culling may not be as tenable. —

Jess Craig, Vox, 14 May 2024 Moscow is now a pariah, and business as usual with Beijing is no longer tenable. —

Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022 The finds clearly show that this single-file scheme is no longer tenable. —

Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020 See all Example Sentences for tenable

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