Synonyms for tenable
ˈtɛn ə bəlten·able

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1. tenableadjective

   Antonyms:
   untenable

2. tenableadjective

   Back in the 1800s, many did not consider Darwin's theory of evolution to be tenable at all.

   Antonyms:
   untenable

3. tenableadjective

   Antonyms:
   untenable

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1. tenable

   Synonyms:
   maintainable, defensible, justifiable, sound, reasonable, consistent

   Antonyms:
   untenable, indefensible, unjustifiable, weak, hollow, fallacious, unreasonable, inconsistent, irrational, absurd

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1. tenable, well-foundedadjective

   based on sound reasoning or evidence

   "well-founded suspicions"

   Synonyms:
   well-founded

   Antonyms:
   unreasonable

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1. tenableadjective

   Synonyms:
   defensible, capable of being held or defended

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1. List of paraphrases for "tenable":

   defensible, arguable, sustainable, defendable, indefensible, valid, untenable

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1. Barbara Blair:

   The new law is preposterous, mentally and emotionally ill individuals should be removed from the streets, involuntarily if necessary.They should be placed in high-quality settings, institutional settings if necessary, where they get the shelter, food and care they need.Having drug addicts, a frightful condition, freely injecting drugs and passing out in public is not tenable.

2. Antony Blinken:

   And while authoritarian regimes deny access to their networks, they actively reach into others and into ours -- taking advantage of and meddling in more open societies. It's no wonder that some countries are asking whether the principles around which we've organized the internet are still relevant or still tenable.

3. Hogan Gidley:

   John Bolton's priorities and policies just don't line up with the President's and any sitting president has the right to put someone in that position that can carry out his agenda. That became no longer tenable so the President made a change.

4. Moscow Dan Hoffman:

   In the long term it’s just not tenable, people are going to know that the government lied to them, if the conflict were over in a day or two it wouldn’t matter so much but the costs of the conflict are so great economically, dead soldiers, that people are going to be upset that they’ve been lied to so much.

5. President Putin:

   There is also the so-called liberal idea, which has outlived its purpose, our Western partners have admitted that some elements of the liberal idea, such as multiculturalism, are no longer tenable.