Word Meanings - VINDICABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VINDICABLE)
Related words: (words related to VINDICABLE)
- TENABLENESS
See TENABILITY - DEFENSIBLENESS
Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley. - VINDICABLE
Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n. - DEFENSIBLE
1. Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause. 2. Capable of offering defense. Shak. - JUSTIFIABLE
Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton. Syn. -- Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*bly, adv. - TENABLE
Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence - INTENABLE
Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. Bp. Warburton. - INDEFENSIBLE
Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal,