Justificatory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to justify; vindicatory; defensory.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. providing justification.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
  • adjective. providing justification
  • Word Usage
    "Following hard on the ‘perils of pop philosophy’ article, I find it ironic that this commentary veers hard into the raw self-justificatory reductio that was lambasted only yesterday."
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