unsupportable
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6.8
- adjective
- /ˌʌn.səˈpɔːr.tə.bəl/
:
insostenible
- So the logical conclusion is that the allegation that Sharon Palmer's chickens contained arsenic is unsupportable.
However, the combined side effects of multiple components of the cocktail could be unsupportable or even fatal.
- However, the combined side effects of multiple components of the cocktail could be unsupportable or even fatal.
Examples
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It's your conclusions we find unsupportable.
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Of course, our conventional food system is a disaster that is unsupportable on any sustainable accounting system.
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However, the combined side effects of multiple components of the cocktail could be unsupportable or even fatal.
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You have taken an extreme and unsupportable position based upon fallacy and fiction.
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Excesses in state and federal government are unsupportable, so they must collapse.
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However, you are digging yourself into an abyss when you make unsupportable claims.
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Your personal experience is irrelevant if it leads you to illogical and unsupportable conclusions and not to wisdom.
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The basic flaw of idealistic multiculturalism is that many of its assumptions are unsupportable by objective evidence.
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Clearly, this concept is not merely unsupportable, but almost laughable in its naiveté.
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The company's financial practices were deemed unsupportable by the auditors.
Synonyms
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7.0
Not having a good reason or official permission
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8.2
Impossible to defend against criticism
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7.5
People cannot show a decision or action is right when others criticize it
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5.0
Not backed by facts or proof
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6.8
You cannot show it is right or acceptable
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7.8
Impossible to defend or accept without proof
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7.4
Too weak to be protected from attack or criticism
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8.1
An action or comment that no one can give a good reason for
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9.2
Cannot be shown to be right or fair
Not possible to show as right or acceptable
Not able to be defended in an argument or court
Cannot be supported by proof or good reasons
Not able to be proved with evidence
Antonyms
How Defensible
Surface Forms
Morphology
unsupportable = supportable (transparent) = un + support + able
Formed by prefixing 'un-' to 'supportable' (support + -able); the meaning 'not able to be supported' is directly compositional.
Etymology
Unsupportable breaks into un- meaning 'not', support meaning 'to hold up', and -able meaning 'able'. So something unsupportable cannot be 'held up' by reasons or facts, which is why it means 'not able to be defended or maintained'.