 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tenable
adjective: based on sound reasoning or evidence; "a reasonable
argument"; "well-founded suspicions" [syn: {well-founded}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tenable \Ten"a*ble\ (t[e^]n"[.a]*b'l), adjective [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.
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.
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
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