Usually means: Cannot be defended or maintained.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word untenable:

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  1. untenable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. untenable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. untenable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. untenable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. untenable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Untenable, untenable: Wordnik
  7. untenable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. untenable: Wiktionary
  9. untenable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. untenable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. untenable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. untenable: Dictionary.com
  13. untenable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. untenable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. untenable: Rhymezone
  16. untenable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. untenable: Free Dictionary
  18. untenable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. untenable: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. untenable: Legal dictionary

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  1. untenable: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Not able to be held or sustained, such as of an opinion or position.
▸ adjective:  Unfit for habitation.

Similar:
indefensible, unreasonable, unwithstandable, unsupportable, unholdable, unbudgeable, unabatable, undetainable, unseatable, intenible, more...

Opposite:
tenable, defensible, justifiable, sustainable, viable

Types:
indefensible, unacceptable, unjustifiable, unreasonable, more...
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Similar:
indefensible, unreasonable, unwithstandable, unsupportable, unholdable, unbudgeable, unabatable, undetainable, unseatable, intenible, more...

Opposite:
tenable, defensible, justifiable, sustainable, viable

Types:
indefensible, unacceptable, unjustifiable, unreasonable, more...



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