justify meaning
EN
[ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ] 
US WJustify
- Justify may refer to:
- In music:
- "Justify", a song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- "Justify" (The Rasmus song), a song by The Rasmus
- VerbSGjustifiesPRjustifyingPT, PPjustifiedSUF-ify
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
- Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
- (transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
- Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- (transitive) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- The text will look better justified.
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- The victory more or less justified the American strategy to find places where the men’s soccer teams will not feel like foreigners, outnumbered and outyelled by fanaticos from Latin America.
- We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The majority said temporary wardship, which allowed the girl to receive a transfusion, was justified.
- So please, don’t ablesplain to me. Especially when you have no idea about the context of what bigotry you’re trying to justify.
- Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of justify in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -fy
- Words suffixed with -ify
- Words suffixed with -ify
- Words suffixed with -ify
- Words suffixed with -fy
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Morphemes
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "justify" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.