justifiable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

That can be justified.
Describing an illegal and intentional act that is nevertheless not blameworthy, for example because its positive consequences outweighed the bad. Distinguished from excusable, describing an involuntary illegal act.

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From Middle French justifiable. By surface analysis, justify + -able.

righteous defensible excusable

unjustifiable

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