Usually means: Providing reasons supporting beliefs, actions.
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  1. justificatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. justificatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. justificatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. justificatory: Vocabulary.com
  5. justificatory: Wordnik
  6. justificatory: Wiktionary
  7. justificatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. justificatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Justificatory, justificatory: Dictionary.com
  10. Justificatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. justificatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. justificatory: Rhymezone
  13. Justificatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. justificatory: FreeDictionary.org
  15. justificatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. justificatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. justificatory: Legal dictionary

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  1. justificatory: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  providing justification

Similar:
justificative, defensive, vindicatory, excusatory, exculpatory, apologetic, expiative, postulatory, satisfactory, declaratory, more...

Opposite:
unjustifiable, unwarranted, unfounded, unreasonable, untenable

Types:
rationalization, minimization, denial, blaming, projection, displacement, dissociation, more...

Phrases:
self justificatory, more...

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Similar:
justificative, defensive, vindicatory, excusatory, exculpatory, apologetic, expiative, postulatory, satisfactory, declaratory, more...

Opposite:
unjustifiable, unwarranted, unfounded, unreasonable, untenable

Types:
rationalization, minimization, denial, blaming, projection, displacement, dissociation, more...

Phrases:
self justificatory, more...



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