Synonyms for untenable
ʌnˈtɛn ə bəlun·ten·able

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1. untenableadjective

   Antonyms:
   defensible, tenable

2. untenableadjective

   The theory of cold fusion was untenable.

   Antonyms:
   defensible, tenable

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1. indefensible, untenableadjective

   (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified

   Synonyms:
   insupportable, unwarranted, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, indefensible

   Antonyms:
   sensible, reasonable

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1. List of paraphrases for "untenable":

   unsustainable, indefensible, unbearable, intolerable, flimsy, unacceptable, unjustifiable, groundless, inconceivable, tenable

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1. Mark Esper:

   We have American forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies, and its a very untenable situation.

2. Anthony Burgess:

   Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

3. Grand Rapids.Superintendent Ron Wilson:

   It's very difficult or almost untenable to ask schools to do more than they're already doing, and while they're taking funds away from us, so give us the resources we need.

4. Judith Krivine:

   Since the beginning of the pandemic, Amazon's results are almost comparable to what they do at Christmas and we're being told that the situation they've been put in is unfair, untenable, unbearable, let's keep it decent, please.

5. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

   I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so.