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Tenable vs Established - What's the difference?

tenable | established |

As adjectives the difference between tenable and established

is that tenable is capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded while established is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.

As a verb established is

(establish).

tenable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded
  • Back in the 1800s, many did not consider Darwin's theory of evolution to be tenable at all.
  • (of a defensive structure) capable of being defended against assault or attack; defensible
  • Antonyms

    * untenable

    Anagrams

    * ----

    established

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (establish)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
  • Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
  • (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
  • Derived terms

    * established church * long-established

    Synonyms

    * (abbreviation)