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Justified vs Rationalize - What's the difference?

justified | rationalize |

As verbs the difference between justified and rationalize

is that justified is (justify) while rationalize is to make something rational or more rational.

As an adjective justified

is having a justification.

justified

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a justification.
  • ''The act was fully justified .

    Antonyms

    * unjustified

    Verb

    (head)
  • (justify)
  • rationalize

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (UK et al)

    Verb

    (rationaliz)
  • To make something rational or more rational.
  • To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive”
  • (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
  • To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles.
  • Derived terms

    * (l), (l)

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