单词 | defensible |
释义 | defensibleWord family (noun) defence/defense defendant defender defensiveness (adjective) defenceless/defenseless defensible ≠ indefensible defensive (verb) defend (adverb) defensibly ≠ indefensibly defensively From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdefensiblede‧fen‧si‧ble /dɪˈfensəbəl/ adjective1 DEFENDa defensible opinion, idea, or action seems reasonable, and you can easily support it OPP indefensible a morally defensible prison system2 DEFENDa defensible building or area is easy to protect against attack —defensibly adverbExamples from the Corpusdefensible• Cooper believes the plan is fair and legally defensible.• I pushed this one step forward and made it defensible at the local level, not the judicial level..• There is no defensible basis for a global answer to this question.• The Democrats have a perfectly defensible case to make, without continuing the fear-mongering.• The highest defensible estimates are several times higher in energy, perhaps magnitude 9. 3 to 9. 5.• If you think it defensible, go on.• No one is more disciplined in adopting a defensible position.• Unfortunately for the advertisers, the first battle has been over the least defensible product. |
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