0 (of an opinion or position) able to be defended successfully or held for a particular period of time: --
The fellowship is tenable for (= lasts for) three years.
His theory is no longer tenable in the light of the recent discoveries.
1 reasonable, or possible to achieve or defend: --
2 a job that is tenable for a particular period of time, or from a particular date, can be held for that period of time or from that date: --
The same view is not seriously tenable in today's smaller world.
To think that the ontogenic development of language learning can be a window on the evolution of language as such is not a tenable option.
Most of the anti's now admit that the case for absolute abolition is no longer tenable.
In effect, one then has several interfaces that just happen to be written in one file - a tenable situation.
I believe the premise of the book is not simply unsatisfying, but no longer tenable.
It is difficult at present to find a tenable alternative to some sort of storage of information to explain these ventral processes.
However, the research makes it clear that this strong position is no longer tenable.
I would claim that none of the movements we have tried to describe were academically tenable except as experiments.
