untenable
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General adjective
Not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
Once the figures were disputed, his position became untenable.
Law adjective
Impossible to defend or maintain against challenge.
The tribunal found the jurisdictional objection untenable and pressed on to the merits.
Business adjective
Impossible to defend or maintain against objection or scrutiny.
Once the audit surfaced, their pricing position became untenable and they conceded.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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