acceptable, alright, conceivable, defendable, good enough, maintainable, possible, secure, unexceptionable, viable, worthy of faith
Definitionadj. based on sound reasoning or evidence
Last update: July 1, 2015
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His statement is tenable. [adjective]
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As little did the territory of the Italian confederacy present any tenable basis. [adjective]
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MRC Research Fellowships: Tenable for three years, they are for those recently postdoctoral. [adjective]
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If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. [adjective]
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- Under the name of Aristotle, three treatises on the good of man have come down to us, Mica Nuco i tkaa (irpos NLKOµaXov, Porphyry), Howe, Eub ipta (7r Os Eiibjµov, Porphyry), and 'HBLKa µeyaXa; so like one another that there seems no tenable hypothesis except that they are the manuscript writings of one man. [Please select]
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The position would have ceased to be tenable and the intruder would have perished. [Please select]
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Their difficulties are different, but neither seems tenable all through. [Please select]
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Like all sceptical hypotheses, it is logically tenable, but uninteresting. [Please select]
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He was advised to destroy New York and retire to positions more tenable. [Please select]
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This doctrine is very complicated and is scarcely tenable as a contribution to pure theory. [Please select]
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The only tenable supposition is, that mental and physical proceed together, as undivided twins. [Please select]
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