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Tenable

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Adjective

1. tenable, well-founded

based on sound reasoning or evidence

Example Sentences:
'well-founded suspicions'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tenable

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adjective
able to be upheld, believed, maintained, or defended

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Tenable

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adjective
that can be held, defended, or maintained

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tenable

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adj.
1. Capable of being maintained in argument; rationally defensible: a tenable theory.
2. Capable of being held against assault; defensible: a tenable outpost.
3. Capable of enduring or of being tolerated: a tenable situation.

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