Justify

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
 * Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin

Related terms

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

Adverbs for Justify
completely; amply; definitely; sufficiently;reasonably; righteously; unmistakably; manifestly; undoubtedly; substantially; abundantly; theoretically.

Thesaurus
absolve, account, account for, acquit, allow, amnesty, approve, argue, assert, authenticate, authorize, back, bear out, claim, clear, compose, confirm, contend, corroborate, cry sour grapes, decontaminate, defend, demonstrate, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, do justice to, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, explain, explain away, extenuate, forgive, free, give absolution, gloss, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, impose, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, let go, let off, make up, nonpros, overrun, palliate, pardon, permit, pi, pi a form, prove, purge, quash the charge, rationalize, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, remit, restore, sanction, set, set free, set in print, shrive, substantiate, support, sustain, uphold, validate, verify, vindicate, warrant, whitewash, withdraw the charge

Alternative forms

 * justifie

Etymology
From justificare:, from justus:, iustus:, + ficare:, from facere:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: برر
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  辯護,  辩护,  聲辯,  声辩
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: indokol,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 言い開く
 * Polish: usprawiedliwiać
 * Russian: оправдать, оправдывать
 * Scots: justifee
 * Spanish: ,


 * Albanian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: indokol
 * Italian:
 * Polish: usprawiedliwiać
 * Scots: justifee
 * Spanish: ,


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: uitlijnen
 * Finnish:
 * French: justifier


 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish: wyjustować
 * Russian: выравнивать


 * : regverdig