Thesaurus: tenable
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.
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- 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.
- adj. based on sound reasoning or evidence
- 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. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. Sir W. Scott.
- Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against anassailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, atenable fortress, a tenable argument.If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in yoursilence still. Shak.I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it wastenable. Sir W. Scott.
- j:100 s. based on sound reasoning or evidence