Tenable vs Established - What's the difference?
tenable | established |
capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded
(of a defensive structure) capable of being defended against assault or attack; defensible
(establish)
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:
(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
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)- Back in the 1800s, many did not consider Darwin's theory of evolution to be tenable at all.
Antonyms
* untenableAnagrams
* ----established
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.