Vocabulary
Untenable
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(especially of a position or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
Urdu meaning
غیر مستحکم، جو دلیل سے ثابت نہ ہو سکے
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- But, then, how does this disastrous and constitutionally untenable `hybrid model` keep returning and upstaging a fledgling democracy?
- The age-old ethos reinforcing multifaith and multicultural relations have come under untenable stress, with religious minorities, particularly the Hindu community, trapped in the crosshairs of both religious bigots and criminal mafias.
- Thus, whereas scientific reason rendered the existence of God untenable in the West, Sufi intuition consigned the reality of the world to oblivion in the East.
- The present trajectory is untenable.
- Where the Baloch insurgency and the TTP campaign are concerned, the kinetic aspects of NAP are essential, as a state of insecurity is untenable, and all armed groups that threaten peace must be neutralised.
Synonyms
indefensible, undefendable, unarguable, insupportable, refutable, unsustainable, unjustified
Antonyms
tenable, defensible
Curator example
“this argument is clearly untenable”
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