| 单词 | justifiable |
| 释义 | justifiable (once / 1317 pages) adj If something is justifiable, it was done for a good reason and is easily explained or defended. Your fear of gerbils is justifiable, given your experience with the mutant gerbil that ate your neighbor's dog. Justifiable means something is "able to be made just," and you'll hear the word often in legal contexts. "Justifiable homicide," for instance, is killing someone in self-defense — a situation where an act that is otherwise criminal is "made just" by the circumstances. You can also use the word in a more positive sense. For example, you can take justifiable pride in winning the race even though you started off running in the wrong direction. WORD FAMILYjustifiable: justifiably, unjustifiable+/justification: justifications, self-justification/justified: justifiedly, unjustified/justifier: justifiers/justify: justifiable, justification, justificative, justificatory, justified, justifier, justifies, justifying/unjustifiable: unjustifiably/unjustified: unjustifiedly USAGE EXAMPLESThere’s no justifiable reason to soften King County’s helmet law, especially not for Pronto. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) He said the shooting was neither justifiable or excusable. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) "For the rally to be justifiable in the longer run, we require earning expectations to overshoot, and this is still missing from the equation." Reuters(Dec 19, 2016) adj capable of being justified Syn excusable capable of being overlooked |
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