Tenable Definition

tĕnə-bəl
adjective
That can be held, defended, or maintained.
Webster's New World
Capable of being maintained in argument; rationally defensible.
A tenable theory.
American Heritage
Capable of being held against assault; defensible.
A tenable outpost.
American Heritage
Capable of enduring or of being tolerated.
A tenable situation.
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Origin of Tenable

  • French from Old French from tenir to hold from Latin tenēre ten- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the French tenable, from tenir (“to hold"); compare tenible.

    From Wiktionary

Tenable Sentence Examples

  • This award is not tenable by students of Natural Sciences.

  • But assuredly they do not include a tenable theory of the universe."

  • Unfortunately, from the tenable theory that the intensity of a sensation increases by definite additions of stimulus, Fechner was led on to postulate a unit of sensation, so that any sensation s might be regarded as composed of n units.

  • But this argument, too, is no longer tenable (see main text ).

  • That was the only tenable basis for our system of taxation.

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