justify
Meaning of justify
verb
- To provide an acceptable explanation for.
How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
- To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
The text will look better justified.
- To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.
- To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
Information about justify
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of justify is: justifies.
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Hyphenation of justify
jus-tify
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- justify is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
justify synonyms
Meaning warrant:
Meaning vindicate:
Meaning apologize:
apologize, excuse, rationalize
Meaning absolve:
Words that rhyme with justify
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