untenable
untenable
Definition
un·ten·able (-ten′ə bəl)
adjective
- that cannot be held, defended, or maintained
- incapable of being tenanted or occupied
- untenanted
- untended
un′·ten·abil′·ity noun or un·ten′·able·ness
untenable
Synonyms
untenable
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- historically: Such a position is both logically and historically untenable.
- politically: What then are the options if the present British course becomes politically untenable?
- increasingly: As a result his position as party leader became increasingly untenable and finally in 1979 he resigned the position and also left the SDLP.
- wholly: The case for man-made UFOs is stronger than ever whereas the evidence for ' alien flying saucers ' is wholly untenable.
- completely: We think that the position of the tobacco companies in withholding information on the additives their cigarettes contain is completely untenable.
- quite: His own way of thinking makes such a view quite untenable.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: These reasons alone make the apparent death theory untenable.
- render: Furthermore, within the body the acidity of the upper GI tract renders the habitat untenable to fungi.
Modifies a noun
- position: It is a most untenable position, in my mind at least.
- conclusion: Nevertheless, Gombrich carries his comparison between the two systems to an untenable conclusion.
- situation: He rejoined the action later, during which time the Platoon withdrew from an untenable situation.
- proposition: Heaven v. Pender 1 goes no further than this, tho it is often cited to support all kinds of untenable propositions.
Used with adjective complement
- render: By 1650 it was rendered untenable, the huge defensive lake was drained, and the gatehouse was converted to residential accommodation.
- become: Eisner's position has become untenable, however, he has not been the most popular of CEO's for sometime.
- seem: They had moved onto high loose shale but their position seemed untenable.
- make: All contribute to make untenable a conspiracy to deceive.
- look: But such criticisms are beginning to look increasingly untenable.
- prove: The population of medieval England peaked at the beginning of the 14th century, before some settlements began to prove untenable.
Preposition: in
Browse dictionary entries near untenable
- unteach
- untaught
- untarnished
- untangle
- unsystematic
- unsympathetic
- unsymmetrical
- unswerving
- unswear
- unswayed
- Untermeyer
- Unterwalden
- untether
- unthankful
- unthink
- unthinkable
- unthinking
- unthread
- unthrone
- untidy
