unjustified en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + justified.
Meanings
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Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.
the unjustified killing of an innocent
Near-synonym: unjustifiable
US President Joe Biden condemned Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces” in a statement Wednesday evening following explosions in Ukraine.
2022 February 23, Jeremy Herb, Donald Judd and Phil Mattingly, “Biden condemns ‘Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine’”, in CNN:Modern sceptical historians are happy to write Dark Age history without naming kings and warleaders of the period, and it seems quite unjustified to take Gildas to task for doing the same thing.
2005, Christopher Gidlow, Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend, The History Press, →ISBN:
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Not justified (of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned)
unjustified text in a wordprocessor
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unjustified | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unjustified | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
unjustifiedness · unjustifiedly
Synonyms
Translations (23)
bg неопра́вдан (unwarranted) · uk неви́правданий (unwarranted) · ru неопра́вданный (unwarranted) · gv gyn oyr (unwarranted) · be неапра́ўданы (unwarranted) · pl bezpodstawny (unwarranted) · de ungerechtfertigt (unwarranted) · cmn 不正當的 /不正当的 (unwarranted) · pl bezzasadny (unwarranted) · el αδικαιολόγητος (unwarranted) · cmn 無理由的 /无理由的 (unwarranted) · pl nieuzasadniony (unwarranted) · fr injustifié (unwarranted) · gl inxustificado (unwarranted) · be неапраўда́ны (unwarranted) · ka გაუმართლებელი (unwarranted) · es sin justificación (unwarranted) · fi epäoikeutettu (unwarranted) · de unbegründet (unwarranted) · mi pokerehū (unwarranted) · gv aggairagh (unwarranted) · el αβάσιμος (unwarranted) · es injustificado (unwarranted)