Tenable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tenable \Ten"a*ble\ (t[e^]n"[.a]*b'l), a. [F. tenable, fr. tenir
     to hold, L. tenere. See {Thin}, and cf. {Continue},
     {Continent}, {Entertain}, {Maintain}, {Tenant}, {Tent}.]
     Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an
     assailant or objector, or against attempts to take or
     process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.


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           If you have hitherto concealed his sight,
           Let it be tenable in your silence still. --Shak.
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           I would be the last man in the world to give up his
           cause when it was tenable.               --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tenable
       adj : based on sound reasoning or evidence; "a reasonable
             argument"; "well-founded suspicions" [syn: {well-founded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenable":
     OK, acceptable, admissible, agreeable, all right, alright,
     arguable, believable, colorable, conceivable, condonable, credible,
     creditable, defendable, defensible, excusable, fiduciary,
     good enough, imaginable, impregnable, justifiable, maintainable,
     okay, passable, plausible, possible, rational, reasonable,
     reliable, secure, supportable, trustworthy, trusty,
     unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unobjectionable, unquestionable,
     viable, vindicable, warrantable, workable, worthy of faith