unjustified
unjustified adjective: not justified, having no justification, unwarranted. Also the simple past and past participle of unjustify.
Adjective
unjustified (comparative more unjustified, superlative most unjustified)
- Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.
- Near-synonym: unjustifiable
- the unjustified killing of an innocent
- Synonyms:
- unjustifiable
- Antonyms:
- justified
- Not justified (of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned)
- unjustified text in a wordprocessor
- Antonyms:
- justified
Also used as
unjustified is also the simple past and past participle of unjustify.
unjustified meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
unjustified in Tamil
- நியாயப்படுத்தப்படாதது
unjustified in Malayalam
- ന്യായീകരിക്കപ്പെടാത്തവർ, ന്യായീകരിക്കപ്പെടാത്ത, ന്യായീകരിക്കപ്പെടാതെ
Examples of unjustified in a sentence
- Modern sceptical historians are happy to write Dark Age history without naming kings and warleaders of the period, and it seems quite unjustified to take Gildas to task for doing the same thing.2005, Christopher Gidlow, Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend, The History Press, →ISBN:
- US President Joe Biden condemned Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces” in a statement Wednesday evening following explosions in Ukraine.2022 February 23, Jeremy Herb, Donald Judd and Phil Mattingly, “Biden condemns ‘Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine’”, in...
Synonyms of unjustified
Antonyms
Forms of unjustified
| comparative | more unjustified |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unjustified |
Origin of unjustified
From un- + justified.
Words formed from unjustified
Questions about unjustified
- What does unjustified mean?
- Unjustified means not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.
- What is unjustified in Tamil?
- Unjustified in Tamil is நியாயப்படுத்தப்படாதது. See Unjustified meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use unjustified in a sentence?
- Modern sceptical historians are happy to write Dark Age history without naming kings and warleaders of the period, and it seems quite unjustified to take Gildas to task for doing the same thing.
- What part of speech is unjustified?
- Unjustified is an adjective.
Words near unjustified in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unjustified (page history and authors); unjustified (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unjustified (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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