Definitions for tenable

tenable ten·a·ble

Spelling: [ten-uh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈtɛn ə bəl/

Tenable is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in tenable (abeelnt).

Definitions for tenable

adjective

  1. capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute:
  2. capable of being occupied, possessed, held, or enjoyed, as under certain conditions:

Origin of tenable

1570-80; French: that can be held, equivalent to ten(ir) to hold (≪ Latin tenēre) + -able -able

Examples for tenable

Truly, it is tenable that the world exists only in consciousness.

That does not mean it is practical, advisable, tenable, moral or that it should be perpetual.

Whether his positions were tenable or flimsy, they had been openly taken.

I do not think a single objection which is made to woman suffrage is tenable.

It had been for some time seen that the town of Portsmouth was not a tenable post.

The reader must judge whether this position is tenable or not.

But this view, if tenable then, has long since been abandoned.

Employee dumping is when employers find it tenable to pay the per-employee penalty for not providing health insurance.

Yet there could be as little doubt that no other theory was tenable.

On the other hand, an exclusive focus on satisfaction is not tenable either.

Word Value for tenable
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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