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self-justificatory

self-justificatory adjective: having the quality of justifying itself.

Adjective

self-justificatory (comparative more self-justificatory, superlative most self-justificatory)

  1. Having the quality of justifying itself.

Forms of self-justificatory

comparativemore self-justificatory
superlativemost self-justificatory

Origin of self-justificatory

From self- + justificatory.

Questions about self-justificatory

What does self-justificatory mean?
Self-justificatory means having the quality of justifying itself.
What part of speech is self-justificatory?
Self-justificatory is an adjective.

Words near self-justificatory in the dictionary

  1. self-isolation
  2. self-isolations
  3. self-isos
  4. self-judgment
  5. self-justification
  6. self-justificatory
  7. self-justified
  8. self-justifier
  9. self-justifiers
  10. self-justifies
  11. self-justify

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