Defendable and Untenable

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Defendable adjective - Capable of being defended against physical attack.

Usage example: that nation has long insisted on having borders that it regards as defendable

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Untenable is an antonym for defendable in topics: reasonable, tenable.

Untenable adjective - (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified.

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Defendable is an antonym for untenable.

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