justifiable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being justified

   If you've been insulted, your anger is justifiable.

2. 2
   adj

   That can be justified.

   Near-synonyms: defensible, excusable.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

   Justifiable homicide.

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

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