unsupportable.

1. Not capable of being sustained or defended by sufficient evidence or reasons in the relevant context.

2. Too great to be borne, endured or maintained by the relevant support or resources.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• unsupportable conclusion
• unsupportable allegation

On the page

The conclusion was unsupportable because the cited data did not measure the claimed outcome.

The report removed an unsupportable allegation while preserving the questions that could be investigated.

Usage notes

Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Comparative more unsupportable; superlative most unsupportable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evidence assessment, qualification, argument critique, assumption analysis. Disciplines: argumentation, logic, research interpretation, formal writing. Commonness: moderately common.