untenable
/ʌnˈtɛnəb(ə)l
/adjective
(Especially of a position or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection: this argument is clearly untenable...
- His position is untenable one unless he means us to make a bonfire not just of Dilthey but Nietzsche and Heidegger too.
- But now they have gone out on such precarious limbs their positions are clearly untenable.
- This is an untenable position to take and is fantasy politics.
Synonyms
indefensible, undefendable, unarguable, insupportable, refutable, unsustainable, unjustified, unwarranted, unjustifiable, inadmissible, unsound, ill-founded, flimsy, weak, shaky, flawed, defective, faulty, implausible, specious, groundless, unfounded, baseless, invalid, absurd, illogical, irrational, preposterous, senseless, unacceptable
Derivatives
untenability
- I am including a number of Catholic leaders on the distribution of this message in the hope that that some of them may be able to add weight to my arguments regarding the untenability of your current relationship with the Tenet organization.
- His comment is instructive as to the untenability of the concept ‘extrinsic reward.’
- The Great Patriotic War confirmed the untenability of what was in effect prefatory organization of field headquarters of fronts on the basis of military district headquarters.
untenableness
untenably
- In less capable hands (like, maybe, his own three years later) these songs would be untenably portentous, but he allows them to breathe with humanity and loads them with some ringer lines to make them likable.
- Could it be that men are afraid that they can't cut it, that women would dump them en masse if they didn't maintain the financial upper hand, making it untenably difficult to raise children without their paycheck?
- Surrounded by all this civility and fine design, this spectacle is growing untenably intimate, obscene, dangerous.