Word Meanings - JUSTIFIABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton. Syn. -- Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JUSTIFIABLE)

• Defensible
• Vindicable
• justifiable
• tenable
• Excusable
• Justifiable
• venal
• pardonable
• Tenable
• Maintainable
• defensible
• sound
• reasonable
• consistent
• Venial
• Pardonable
• excusable
• remissible

Related words: (words related to JUSTIFIABLE)

• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• TENABLENESS
  See TENABILITY
• VENIALITY
  The quality or state of being venial; venialness. Jer. Taylor.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• DEFENSIBLENESS
  Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• PARDONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• REASONABLE
  1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being. 2. Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason;
• VENALITY
  The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. Complaints of Roman venality became louder.
• REASONABLENESS
  Quality of being reasonable.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• VINDICABLE
  Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• DEFENSIBLE
  1. Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause. 2. Capable of offering defense. Shak.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• INEXCUSABLE
  Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
• UNEXCUSABLE
  Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• UNREASONABLE
  Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• RAVENALA
  A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and
• TREASONABLE
  Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
• INTENABLE
  Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. Bp. Warburton.
• UNPARDONABLE
  Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.