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Definition of Tenable
1. Adjective. Based on sound reasoning or evidence. "Well-founded suspicions"
Similar to: Reasonable, Sensible
Derivative terms: Tenability, Tenableness
Definition of Tenable
1. a. 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.
Definition of Tenable
1. Adjective. (context: of a theory, argument etc) capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a defensive structure) capable of being defended against assault or attack; defensible ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenable
1. capable of being held [adj] : TENABLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenable
Literary usage of Tenable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Is the distinction between interest and rent tenable, in view of the ... There are
several tenable grounds for regarding all these incomes as homogeneous. ..."
2. Commentaries Upon Martial Law: With Special Reference to Its Regulation and by William Francis Finlason, Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1867)
"This notion is not tenable, because the common law is eminently local and is the
custom of the realm. And the true principle appears to be that it must ..."
3. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (2001)
"247. tenable] CALDECOTT and KNIGHT (ed. i.) defend the misprint of Ff. Both ...
tenable in silence ' is scarcely English ; no ordinary combination of ..."
4. American Journal of Education (1878)
"Degree :—Scholarship in Medicine for 501. per annum, in Midwifery of 30/.
per annum, in Forensic Medicine of 30/. per annum, tenable for 2 years each. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... Irish, as for Cythera, they declared openly it was noe Place tenable: and yet
Gain-ay, both these Townes were held impregnable in former Times: and soe ..."
6. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... while Frederic wished that of the Rhine to be the principal station, as, from
the depth and rapidity of the river, it was much more tenable than the ..."
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