untenable

  • 11untenable — adjective Not able to be held, as of an opinion or position; unholdable, indefensible. The theory of cold fusion was untenable. Ant: tenable, defensible See Also: tenant …

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  • 12untenable — adj. Untenable is used with these nouns: ↑situation …

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  • 13untenable — adjective these untenable explanations are not helping your case Syn: indefensible, insupportable, unsustainable, unjustified, unjustifiable, flimsy, weak, shaky …

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  • 14untenable — untenability, untenableness, n. /un ten euh beuhl/, adj. 1. incapable of being defended, as an argument, thesis, etc.; indefensible. 2. not fit to be occupied, as an apartment, house, etc. [1640 50; UN 1 + TENABLE] Syn. 1. baseless, groundless,… …

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  • 15untenable — Synonyms and related words: aidless, baseless, defenseless, empty, exceptionable, fatherless, faulty, flawed, friendless, groundless, guideless, helpless, idle, ill founded, illogical, implausible, impossible, inadmissible, indefensible,… …

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  • 16untenable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. indefensible, insupportable, inconsistent, illogical. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. indefensible, unsupportable, unreasonable, unsound, flawed; see also illogical . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 17untenable — adj. undefendable; not able to be lived in, uninhabitable …

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  • 18untenable — adjective not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection. Derivatives untenability noun untenably adverb …

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  • 19untenable — a. 1. Unmaintainable, indefensible, unsound. 2. Weak, hollow, fallacious, unjustifiable, indefensible …

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  • 20untenable — adj indefensible, insupportable, unarguable, unmaintainable, unsustainable, undefendable, refutable; weak, flawed, faulty, specious, implausible; illogical, groundless, baseless, unreasonable, Both Logic. paralogical, paralogistic; contestable,… …

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