Word Meanings - TENABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts 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

Additional info about word: TENABLE

Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts 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. (more info) Thin, and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TENABLE)

• Defensible
• Vindicable
• justifiable
• tenable

Related words: (words related to TENABLE)

• TENABLENESS
  See TENABILITY
• DEFENSIBLENESS
  Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.
• VINDICABLE
  Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n.
• DEFENSIBLE
  1. Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause. 2. Capable of offering defense. Shak.
• JUSTIFIABLE
  Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton. Syn. -- Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*bly, adv.
• TENABLE
  Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts 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
• INTENABLE
  Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. Bp. Warburton.
• INDEFENSIBLE
  Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal,