tenable

/ten-uh-buhl/US // ˈtɛn ə bəl //UK // (ˈtɛnəbəl) //

合理的,可行的,可行,可持续

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute: a tenable theory.
- : capable of being occupied, possessed, held, or enjoyed, as under certain conditions: a research grant tenable for two years.

adj.reasonable

Synonyms

It’s no longer tenable for companies like ExxonMobil to defy calls to align their businesses with decarbonizing the economy.
I believe that in this case, the claim that these videos and photographs violate the dignity of the dead is neither morally tenable nor historically accurate.
It was so expansive that once it came time for me to be serious and accept a certain type of isolation, I didn’t want to accept it, but it was tenable.
The time may be approaching when that clever maneuver is no longer tenable.
The shift has happened so suddenly and seismically that, to many people, the alternative no longer even appears tenable.
They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.
Employee dumping is when employers find it tenable to pay the per-employee penalty for not providing health insurance.
That does not mean it is practical, advisable, tenable, moral or that it should be perpetual.
On the other hand, an exclusive focus on satisfaction is not tenable either.
He was at length convinced by the arguments of his opponents that the corn-laws were no longer tenable.
The common theory, therefore, of the calculation of chances, appears to be tenable.

/ten-uh-buhl/US // ˈtɛn ə bəl //UK // (ˈtɛnəbəl) //

合理的,可行的,可行,可持续

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute: a tenable theory.
- : capable of being occupied, possessed, held, or enjoyed, as under certain conditions: a research grant tenable for two years.

adj.reasonable

Synonyms

It’s no longer tenable for companies like ExxonMobil to defy calls to align their businesses with decarbonizing the economy.
I believe that in this case, the claim that these videos and photographs violate the dignity of the dead is neither morally tenable nor historically accurate.
It was so expansive that once it came time for me to be serious and accept a certain type of isolation, I didn’t want to accept it, but it was tenable.
The time may be approaching when that clever maneuver is no longer tenable.
The shift has happened so suddenly and seismically that, to many people, the alternative no longer even appears tenable.
They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.
Employee dumping is when employers find it tenable to pay the per-employee penalty for not providing health insurance.
That does not mean it is practical, advisable, tenable, moral or that it should be perpetual.
On the other hand, an exclusive focus on satisfaction is not tenable either.
He was at length convinced by the arguments of his opponents that the corn-laws were no longer tenable.
The common theory, therefore, of the calculation of chances, appears to be tenable.