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tenable
(mass) | tenable
- udržateľný |
tenable
(encz) | tenable,udržitelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Tenable
(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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tenable
(wn) | tenable
adj 1: based on sound reasoning or evidence; "well-founded
suspicions" [syn: tenable, well-founded] |
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tenable
(mass) | tenable
- udržateľný |
tenable
(encz) | tenable,udržitelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tenableness
(encz) | tenableness, n: |
untenable
(encz) | untenable,neobhajitelný untenable,neudržitelný |
Intenable
(gcide) | Intenable \In*ten"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + tenable: cf. F.
intenable.]
Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an
intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. [Obs.] --Bp.
Warburton.
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Tenableness
(gcide) | Tenableness \Ten`a*ble*ness\, n.
Same as Tenability.
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Untenable
(gcide) | Untenable \Untenable\
See tenable. |
tenable
(wn) | tenable
adj 1: based on sound reasoning or evidence; "well-founded
suspicions" [syn: tenable, well-founded] |
tenableness
(wn) | tenableness
n 1: the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a
reasonable person; "he questioned the tenability of my
claims" [syn: reasonableness, tenability,
tenableness] |
untenable
(wn) | untenable
adj 1: (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or
justified [syn: indefensible, untenable] |
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