English Dictionary

untenable

adj

Not able to be held, as of an opinion or position. / Unfit for habitation.

The argument presented by the speaker was untenable.

意味（1）

Not able to be held, as of an opinion or position.

The theory of cold fusion was untenable.

意味（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.