untenable

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not able to be held or sustained, such as of an opinion or position.
    — The theory of cold fusion was untenable.
  2. Unfit for habitation.
    — […] ceilings, staircases, all that make a house habitable had vanished in the flare of his conflagration, and since his soul could no longer dwell there, it dwelt instead, so to speak, in the pleasant garden which surrounded the untenable house.

词形变化

more untenable comparative most untenable superlative

词汇关系

相关词
tenant

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English tenable
English untenable
From un- + tenable.
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