Definition of defensible in English:

defensible

adjective dɪˈfɛnsɪb(ə)ldəˈfɛnsəb(ə)l

1Justifiable by argument.
a morally defensible penal system
Example sentencesExamples
- The merger was a rationally defensible idea which failed because it involved too high a cultural price.
- I'm not sure how much of this is reasonable, defensible, arguable.
- I simply point out that they are articles of faith, and are NOT rationally defensible standpoints as most scientists would have you believe.
- They have to come up with reasonable and defensible public policies that can be explained in terms of the public interest.
- The federal government almost always has defensible reasons for their actions.
- Self regulation is not magic: it requires substantive, defensible, and valid processes.
- This is a substantially weaker thesis, and I shall assume for purposes of argument that it is defensible.
- The Revolution was an explosion of popular violence, understandable if scarcely defensible resentment.
- Tools exist that can synthesise such data to scientific standards and provide logical and defensible conclusions about impacts on a system, a population, and society.
- In a meritocratic society, intelligence was a defensible rationale for social distinctions.
- That argument should be based on five simple and defensible propositions.
- It's hard to knock this decision in political terms, and it has a defensible legal rationale.
- But I do think Judge Cedarbaum was very clear in her reasoning, very logical and very defensible.
- This interpretation is perfectly understandable and defensible from a moral and emotional standpoint.
- That is an entirely reasonable and defensible position.
- The only sensible and morally defensible route is to promote greater understanding and tolerance, and to educate the population on immigration issues.
- I believe people today can be attracted to a belief system that is rational and defensible.
- How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy?
- Not every decision or action may be defensible, warranting both guidelines and the scrutiny the review intended.
- But are the censors' actions justified or defensible?
Synonyms
justifiable, arguable, tenable, defendable, maintainable, sustainable, supportable, plausible, well founded, sound, sensible, reasonable, rational, logical, able to hold water
acceptable, satisfactory, valid, legitimate, warrantable, permissible, excusable, pardonable, understandable, condonable, vindicable
2Able to be protected.
a fort with a defensible yard at its feet
Example sentencesExamples
- This is to support the people of the country and to secure defensible borders for them.
- The border must be rational: defensible for one group, livable for the the other.
- The tactic of climbing over the side of the mountain, rather than maintaining a defensible position, was not militarily sound.
- Following the war, UN resolution 242 recognized the nation's right to defensible borders, to be set in negotiations.
- The principles of this were defensible space, community interaction, natural surveillance, estate design and target hardening.
- But if they decided to move in strength, he would never be able to stop them, however defensible the Gullet might be.
Synonyms
secure, safe, fortified, protectable, able to be protected, holdable
invulnerable, impregnable, impenetrable, unattackable, unassailable

Derivatives

defensibility

noun dɪfɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtidəˌfɛnsəˈbɪlədi

Legal defensibility of the tests is also an important component.
Example sentencesExamples
- But hopefully it will also allow us to increase our defensibility.
- Once the matter is formulated in this way, however, the important question is not so much the defensibility of the modest essentialist position as its significance.
- Each of those attacks the defensibility of the exercise of the discretion in the circumstances of this case.
- Polygyny in that group may be associated with male territoriality and defensibility of nesting resources.

defensibly

adverb dɪˈfɛnsɪblidəˈfɛnsəbli

A design problem in writing a short piece is that insufficient space to say things defensibly inevitably generates misunderstandings.
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition, it is essential to construct the question so that correct options are defensibly correct and distracters are defensibly incorrect.
- Commercial country music might defensibly be described as a ‘verbal’ art form.
- In some ways Lewis's theory is the diametric opposite of the equally clear-cut theory first proposed by Jaakko Hintikka (that Cubism is rigorously and defensibly realism) - a theory Lewis in effect ascribes to Clark.
- Even a good chunk of the much-hailed decline in crime rates is defensibly assigned to full employment.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'capable of giving protective defence'): from late Latin defensibilis, from Latin defendere (see defend).

Rhymes

apprehensible, comprehensible, distensible, extensible, ostensible, reprehensible, sensible

Definition of defensible in US English:

defensible

adjectivedəˈfensəb(ə)ldəˈfɛnsəb(ə)l

1Justifiable by argument.
a morally defensible penal system
Example sentencesExamples
- The merger was a rationally defensible idea which failed because it involved too high a cultural price.
- The Revolution was an explosion of popular violence, understandable if scarcely defensible resentment.
- The federal government almost always has defensible reasons for their actions.
- This is a substantially weaker thesis, and I shall assume for purposes of argument that it is defensible.
- They have to come up with reasonable and defensible public policies that can be explained in terms of the public interest.
- The only sensible and morally defensible route is to promote greater understanding and tolerance, and to educate the population on immigration issues.
- That argument should be based on five simple and defensible propositions.
- In a meritocratic society, intelligence was a defensible rationale for social distinctions.
- I'm not sure how much of this is reasonable, defensible, arguable.
- How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy?
- Self regulation is not magic: it requires substantive, defensible, and valid processes.
- But are the censors' actions justified or defensible?
- Tools exist that can synthesise such data to scientific standards and provide logical and defensible conclusions about impacts on a system, a population, and society.
- But I do think Judge Cedarbaum was very clear in her reasoning, very logical and very defensible.
- I believe people today can be attracted to a belief system that is rational and defensible.
- I simply point out that they are articles of faith, and are NOT rationally defensible standpoints as most scientists would have you believe.
- Not every decision or action may be defensible, warranting both guidelines and the scrutiny the review intended.
- That is an entirely reasonable and defensible position.
- This interpretation is perfectly understandable and defensible from a moral and emotional standpoint.
- It's hard to knock this decision in political terms, and it has a defensible legal rationale.
Synonyms
justifiable, arguable, tenable, defendable, maintainable, sustainable, supportable, plausible, well founded, sound, sensible, reasonable, rational, logical, able to hold water
2Able to be protected.
a fort with a defensible yard at its feet
Example sentencesExamples
- Following the war, UN resolution 242 recognized the nation's right to defensible borders, to be set in negotiations.
- The principles of this were defensible space, community interaction, natural surveillance, estate design and target hardening.
- This is to support the people of the country and to secure defensible borders for them.
- The border must be rational: defensible for one group, livable for the the other.
- The tactic of climbing over the side of the mountain, rather than maintaining a defensible position, was not militarily sound.
- But if they decided to move in strength, he would never be able to stop them, however defensible the Gullet might be.
Synonyms
secure, safe, fortified, protectable, able to be protected, holdable

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘capable of giving protective defense’): from late Latin defensibilis, from Latin defendere (see defend).

单词	defensible
释义	Definition of defensible in English: defensible adjective dɪˈfɛnsɪb(ə)ldəˈfɛnsəb(ə)l 1Justifiable by argument. a morally defensible penal system Example sentencesExamples The merger was a rationally defensible idea which failed because it involved too high a cultural price. I'm not sure how much of this is reasonable, defensible, arguable. I simply point out that they are articles of faith, and are NOT rationally defensible standpoints as most scientists would have you believe. They have to come up with reasonable and defensible public policies that can be explained in terms of the public interest. The federal government almost always has defensible reasons for their actions. Self regulation is not magic: it requires substantive, defensible, and valid processes. This is a substantially weaker thesis, and I shall assume for purposes of argument that it is defensible. The Revolution was an explosion of popular violence, understandable if scarcely defensible resentment. Tools exist that can synthesise such data to scientific standards and provide logical and defensible conclusions about impacts on a system, a population, and society. In a meritocratic society, intelligence was a defensible rationale for social distinctions. That argument should be based on five simple and defensible propositions. It's hard to knock this decision in political terms, and it has a defensible legal rationale. But I do think Judge Cedarbaum was very clear in her reasoning, very logical and very defensible. This interpretation is perfectly understandable and defensible from a moral and emotional standpoint. That is an entirely reasonable and defensible position. The only sensible and morally defensible route is to promote greater understanding and tolerance, and to educate the population on immigration issues. I believe people today can be attracted to a belief system that is rational and defensible. How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy? Not every decision or action may be defensible, warranting both guidelines and the scrutiny the review intended. But are the censors' actions justified or defensible? Synonyms justifiable, arguable, tenable, defendable, maintainable, sustainable, supportable, plausible, well founded, sound, sensible, reasonable, rational, logical, able to hold water acceptable, satisfactory, valid, legitimate, warrantable, permissible, excusable, pardonable, understandable, condonable, vindicable 2Able to be protected. a fort with a defensible yard at its feet Example sentencesExamples This is to support the people of the country and to secure defensible borders for them. The border must be rational: defensible for one group, livable for the the other. The tactic of climbing over the side of the mountain, rather than maintaining a defensible position, was not militarily sound. Following the war, UN resolution 242 recognized the nation's right to defensible borders, to be set in negotiations. The principles of this were defensible space, community interaction, natural surveillance, estate design and target hardening. But if they decided to move in strength, he would never be able to stop them, however defensible the Gullet might be. Synonyms secure, safe, fortified, protectable, able to be protected, holdable invulnerable, impregnable, impenetrable, unattackable, unassailable Derivatives defensibility noun dɪfɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtidəˌfɛnsəˈbɪlədi Legal defensibility of the tests is also an important component. Example sentencesExamples But hopefully it will also allow us to increase our defensibility. Once the matter is formulated in this way, however, the important question is not so much the defensibility of the modest essentialist position as its significance. Each of those attacks the defensibility of the exercise of the discretion in the circumstances of this case. Polygyny in that group may be associated with male territoriality and defensibility of nesting resources. defensibly adverb dɪˈfɛnsɪblidəˈfɛnsəbli A design problem in writing a short piece is that insufficient space to say things defensibly inevitably generates misunderstandings. Example sentencesExamples In addition, it is essential to construct the question so that correct options are defensibly correct and distracters are defensibly incorrect. Commercial country music might defensibly be described as a ‘verbal’ art form. In some ways Lewis's theory is the diametric opposite of the equally clear-cut theory first proposed by Jaakko Hintikka (that Cubism is rigorously and defensibly realism) - a theory Lewis in effect ascribes to Clark. Even a good chunk of the much-hailed decline in crime rates is defensibly assigned to full employment. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'capable of giving protective defence'): from late Latin defensibilis, from Latin defendere (see defend). Rhymes apprehensible, comprehensible, distensible, extensible, ostensible, reprehensible, sensible Definition of defensible in US English: defensible adjectivedəˈfensəb(ə)ldəˈfɛnsəb(ə)l 1Justifiable by argument. a morally defensible penal system Example sentencesExamples The merger was a rationally defensible idea which failed because it involved too high a cultural price. The Revolution was an explosion of popular violence, understandable if scarcely defensible resentment. The federal government almost always has defensible reasons for their actions. This is a substantially weaker thesis, and I shall assume for purposes of argument that it is defensible. They have to come up with reasonable and defensible public policies that can be explained in terms of the public interest. The only sensible and morally defensible route is to promote greater understanding and tolerance, and to educate the population on immigration issues. That argument should be based on five simple and defensible propositions. In a meritocratic society, intelligence was a defensible rationale for social distinctions. I'm not sure how much of this is reasonable, defensible, arguable. How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy? Self regulation is not magic: it requires substantive, defensible, and valid processes. But are the censors' actions justified or defensible? Tools exist that can synthesise such data to scientific standards and provide logical and defensible conclusions about impacts on a system, a population, and society. But I do think Judge Cedarbaum was very clear in her reasoning, very logical and very defensible. I believe people today can be attracted to a belief system that is rational and defensible. I simply point out that they are articles of faith, and are NOT rationally defensible standpoints as most scientists would have you believe. Not every decision or action may be defensible, warranting both guidelines and the scrutiny the review intended. That is an entirely reasonable and defensible position. This interpretation is perfectly understandable and defensible from a moral and emotional standpoint. It's hard to knock this decision in political terms, and it has a defensible legal rationale. Synonyms justifiable, arguable, tenable, defendable, maintainable, sustainable, supportable, plausible, well founded, sound, sensible, reasonable, rational, logical, able to hold water 2Able to be protected. a fort with a defensible yard at its feet Example sentencesExamples Following the war, UN resolution 242 recognized the nation's right to defensible borders, to be set in negotiations. The principles of this were defensible space, community interaction, natural surveillance, estate design and target hardening. This is to support the people of the country and to secure defensible borders for them. The border must be rational: defensible for one group, livable for the the other. The tactic of climbing over the side of the mountain, rather than maintaining a defensible position, was not militarily sound. But if they decided to move in strength, he would never be able to stop them, however defensible the Gullet might be. Synonyms secure, safe, fortified, protectable, able to be protected, holdable Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘capable of giving protective defense’): from late Latin defensibilis, from Latin defendere (see defend).
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