TENABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenable mean? 

• TENABLE (adjective)
  The adjective TENABLE has 1 sense:

1. based on sound reasoning or evidence

  Familiarity information: TENABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Based on sound reasoning or evidence

Synonyms:

tenable; well-founded

Context example:

well-founded suspicions

Similar:

reasonable; sensible (showing reason or sound judgment)

Derivation:

tenability; tenableness (the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person)

 Context examples 

I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts, and is not considered tenable by one's associates.

(Delusion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)