justify

justify is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.
2. adjective. To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear.
3. adjective. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
4. adjective. To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
5. adjective. To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
6. intransitive verb. To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
7. intransitive verb. To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
8. verb. adjust the spaces between words

   "justify the margins"

9. verb. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

   "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"

   "he rationalized his lack of success"

   Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalise, rationalize

10. verb. show to be right by providing justification or proof

    "vindicate a claim"

    Synonyms: vindicate

11. verb. show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for

    "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"

    "The end justifies the means"

    Synonyms: warrant

12. verb. let off the hook

    "I absolve you from this responsibility"

    Synonyms: absolve, free

Synonyms

apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalise, rationalize, vindicate, warrant, absolve, free

Common word forms

justified, justifier, justifies, justifying

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