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Tunable vs Tenable - What's the difference?

tunable | tenable |

As adjectives the difference between tunable and tenable

is that tunable is harmonious, melodic, tuneful while tenable is capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded.

tunable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • *1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 147-8:
  • *:Then doe all with a tunable voice of shouting bid him welcome.
  • *1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisabury , I:
  • *:she rather chose to follow the Fortunes of a Wheel-Barrow'', than those of a ''Distaff''; daily, charming the Ears of the Publick with the Tuneable and Melodious Cry, of, ''Come who throws here? Who ventures for an ORANGE?
  • Able to be tuned.

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    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

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