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justify | mindless |

As a verb justify

is to provide an acceptable explanation for.

As an adjective mindless is

showing a lack of forethought or sense.

justify

English

Alternative forms

* justifie (obsolete)

Verb

  • To provide an acceptable explanation for.
    • How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
    Paying too much for car insurance is not justified .
  • To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
    • Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
  • * E. Everett
    • Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify' revolution, it would not ' justify the evil of breaking up a government.
  • 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
  • * Shakespeare
    • I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
  • * Bible, Acts xiii. 39
    • By him all that believe are justified' from all things, from which ye could not be ' justified by the law of Moses.
  • To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Related terms

    * -fy * just * justification * justifiable * justifiably * unjustified

    mindless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
  • Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
    • An act of mindless violence.
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  • Heedless.
  • (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging.
  • Lacking a mind.
    • Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.

    Antonyms

    * mindful

    Anagrams

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