Synonyms for Justifying:

• adj.

  •explanatory (adjective)
  • Annotative,
  • discursive,
  • informing,
  • allegorical,
  • analytical,
  • illustrative,
  • Illuminative,
  • guiding,
  • enlightening,
  • critical,
  • expository,
  • summary,
  • exegetic,
  • demonstrative,
  • informative,
  • graphic,
  • instructive,
  • Hermeneutic,
  • Explicative.
  •extenuating (adjective)
  • moderating,
  • Mitigating,
  • diminishing,
  • Varnishing,
  • sanitizing,
  • Condoning,
  • Palliating,
  • softening,
  • Whitewashing,
  • lessening,
  • reducing,
  • qualifying.
  •interpretative (adjective)
  • elucidative,
  • expositive,
  • Explanative,
  • Hermeneutical.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • interpretative,
  • expositional,
  • extenuating,
  • declarative,
  • explanatory,
  • interpretive,
  • exegetical,
  • Justifying,
  • diagrammatic,
  • supplementary,
  • Elucidatory.

• n.

  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • Proving.
  •proving (noun)
  • Examining,
  • confirmation,
  • testing.

• v.

  •account for (verb)
  • clarify,
  • elucidate,
  • justify,
  • resolve.
  •accounting (verb)
  • Explicating,
  • Explaining,
  • accounting,
  • rationalizing,
  • clarifying,
  • Describing.
  •advocate (verb)
  • further,
  • hold with,
  • campaign for,
  • push,
  • give a lift,
  • be in corner,
  • tout,
  • side,
  • bolster,
  • root for,
  • recommend,
  • press for,
  • back,
  • advise,
  • plead for,
  • build up,
  • ride shotgun for,
  • speak for,
  • stump for,
  • give a leg up,
  • propose,
  • brace up,
  • spread around,
  • go to bat for,
  • advance,
  • say so,
  • go for,
  • plump for,
  • champion,
  • bless,
  • get on bandwagon,
  • go with,
  • promote,
  • urge,
  • encourage,
  • run interference for.
  •argue (verb)
  • display,
  • testify,
  • persuade,
  • show,
  • reason,
  • controvert,
  • suggest,
  • manifest,
  • hold,
  • present,
  • appeal,
  • demonstrate,
  • denote,
  • evince,
  • talk into,
  • indicate,
  • witness,
  • imply,
  • attest,
  • exhibit,
  • prevail upon.
  •assert (verb)
  • butt in,
  • protest,
  • cite,
  • affirm,
  • aver,
  • shoot off one's mouth,
  • allege,
  • avow,
  • pronounce,
  • argue,
  • swear,
  • asservate,
  • stress,
  • avouch,
  • put forward,
  • pop off,
  • state,
  • proclaim,
  • say,
  • horn in,
  • profess,
  • predicate,
  • press,
  • shoot one's wad,
  • mouth off.
  •justify (verb)
  • contend,
  • verify,
  • stand up for,
  • pardon,
  • countenance,
  • assert,
  • excuse,
  • claim,
  • show cause,
  • cop a plea,
  • confirm,
  • alibi,
  • favor,
  • rationalize,
  • approve,
  • crawl,
  • advocate,
  • condone,
  • support,
  • vindicate,
  • clear,
  • answer for,
  • rebut,
  • validate,
  • bear out,
  • warrant,
  • make allowances,
  • exonerate,
  • do justice to,
  • palliate,
  • brief,
  • sustain,
  • uphold,
  • be answerable for,
  • legalize,
  • square,
  • explain,
  • establish,
  • acquit,
  • argue for,
  • speak in favor,
  • exculpate,
  • plead,
  • defend,
  • make good,
  • apologize for,
  • maintain.
  •responding (verb)
  • defending,
  • Rebutting,
  • Denying,
  • Responding,
  • Refuting,
  • answering,
  • reacting,
  • Retorting,
  • expounding,
  • echoing,
  • returning,
  • Replying,
  • Objecting,
  • Acknowledging.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • give back,
  • sign,
  • control,
  • abbreviate,
  • clench,
  • immoral,
  • enunciate,
  • conk,
  • decriminalise,
  • face,
  • corroboratory,
  • bank,
  • gage,
  • fend for,
  • argumentation,
  • connote,
  • vie,
  • phiz,
  • corroborative,
  • admirer,
  • financial backing,
  • amnesty,
  • attestor,
  • bind,
  • load-bearing,
  • state of matter,
  • upgrade,
  • basal,
  • business relationship,
  • bag,
  • oppose,
  • sound reflection,
  • authorise,
  • cut back,
  • crawling,
  • ace,
  • compress,
  • land,
  • agitate,
  • parameter,
  • cutting off,
  • shoot a line,
  • cathartic,
  • make headway,
  • posit,
  • handgrip,
  • swash,
  • get,
  • reenforcement,
  • cargo area,
  • resolution,
  • deliver,
  • assuage,
  • literary argument,
  • confess,
  • rabbit on,
  • alleviative,
  • button,
  • contestation,
  • exempt,
  • satisfying,
  • english,
  • concord,
  • riposte,
  • set up,
  • declare,
  • foreswear,
  • public press,
  • limiting,
  • blow,
  • contest,
  • kisser,
  • rearward,
  • croak,
  • let off,
  • install,
  • expose,
  • patronage,
  • whiz,
  • respond,
  • announce,
  • public square,
  • take hold,
  • rise,
  • enlighten,
  • dissent,
  • analytic,
  • party favor,
  • declare oneself,
  • detention,
  • stinger,
  • declaratory,
  • decrease,
  • hold back,
  • reassert,
  • defense reaction,
  • adjudge,
  • legitimatise,
  • break in,
  • abide,
  • clean,
  • confine,
  • sound out,
  • nurture,
  • constrain,
  • refute,
  • home,
  • hold up,
  • objection,
  • score,
  • stomach,
  • throw,
  • stage,
  • decide,
  • friend,
  • comeback,
  • rearwards,
  • enounce,
  • solve,
  • stock warrant,
  • denial,
  • issue,
  • asseverate,
  • prove,
  • root word,
  • calculate,
  • recompense,
  • body politic,
  • waive,
  • come with,
  • alleviant,
  • thaw,
  • auxiliary,
  • tension,
  • let,
  • chisel in,
  • relinquishment,
  • maven,
  • hero,
  • cut off,
  • champ,
  • rationality,
  • work up,
  • counsellor,
  • retrovert,
  • reinforcement,
  • intrude,
  • boost,
  • ingathering,
  • promulgate,
  • crystallise,
  • barge in,
  • cringe,
  • contradict,
  • take back,
  • throw out,
  • take the stand,
  • sensation,
  • punt,
  • unmortgaged,
  • solution,
  • pushing,
  • intellect,
  • reversive,
  • pull ahead,
  • reverberate,
  • game,
  • sanction,
  • continue,
  • apparent,
  • shortened,
  • cheer,
  • digressive,
  • inculpate,
  • endure,
  • succinct,
  • defense lawyers,
  • restitution,
  • grasp,
  • read,
  • plain,
  • go,
  • show up,
  • manage,
  • construe with,
  • adjudicate,
  • count,
  • fight back,
  • lop,
  • systematisation,
  • depend,
  • pass,
  • turn back,
  • crystalise,
  • title-holder,
  • raise,
  • arrest,
  • certify,
  • concede,
  • guard,
  • snub,
  • fence,
  • substructure,
  • cleared,
  • cargo deck,
  • merit,
  • endorse,
  • restoration,
  • bet on,
  • avowal,
  • legalise,
  • label,
  • straightforward,
  • invoice,
  • lay claim,
  • mavin,
  • touter,
  • long pillow,
  • withdraw,
  • shed light on,
  • crop,
  • declarative mood,
  • wiz,
  • confront,
  • province,
  • depict,
  • fancy,
  • hearty,
  • march on,
  • write out,
  • annotating,
  • back up,
  • tipster,
  • move on,
  • guarantee,
  • behave,
  • recitation,
  • defensive measure,
  • unmistakable,
  • let go,
  • have got,
  • retain,
  • front crawl,
  • firmness of purpose,
  • ratting,
  • vertebral column,
  • crystalize,
  • advert,
  • demurrer,
  • encouraging,
  • emphasis,
  • homecoming,
  • exclaim,
  • cash in one's chips,
  • positioning,
  • realise,
  • chronicle,
  • exponent,
  • acceptance,
  • choke,
  • floor,
  • cuss,
  • switch off,
  • drop-off,
  • rejoin,
  • crush,
  • title,
  • firmness,
  • bread and butter,
  • name,
  • free pardon,
  • see,
  • fawn,
  • accommodate,
  • ramp up,
  • thrust,
  • protagonist,
  • imperativeness,
  • thinking,
  • refund,
  • insistence,
  • energy,
  • acceptation,
  • adduce,
  • radix,
  • inspire,
  • nose,
  • underpin,
  • designate,
  • force,
  • rejoinder,
  • kick the bucket,
  • pressure,
  • stick out,
  • emasculated,
  • give,
  • exonerated,
  • gas,
  • second,
  • mitigative,
  • clarification,
  • shew,
  • exert,
  • yarn,
  • al qaeda,
  • pry,
  • attract,
  • tenseness,
  • decease,
  • infrastructure,
  • portray,
  • binding,
  • quotation,
  • snuff it,
  • ratification,
  • proponent,
  • depone,
  • get along,
  • genius,
  • dos,
  • ground,
  • nourish,
  • make,
  • evidence,
  • abbreviated,
  • payoff,
  • defensive,
  • clean-cut,
  • bed,
  • diagrammatical,
  • endorsement,
  • arrogate,
  • insistency,
  • footing,
  • take in,
  • imprecate,
  • pass away,
  • legitimate,
  • dianoetic,
  • quote,
  • reception,
  • straighten out,
  • incriminate,
  • reappearance,
  • legitimize,
  • allegoric,
  • register,
  • accept,
  • nation,
  • cut of meat,
  • legitimise,
  • light,
  • booster,
  • refutation,
  • vindicated,
  • country,
  • unblock,
  • coming back,
  • defending team,
  • compact,
  • reasonableness,
  • glade,
  • exculpated,
  • statement,
  • vital,
  • nominate,
  • build,
  • adjure,
  • stake,
  • comment,
  • gain,
  • swan,
  • articulate,
  • dod,
  • commonwealth,
  • bridal,
  • musical accompaniment,
  • reverting,
  • dress,
  • hark back,
  • declaration,
  • get by,
  • accentuate,
  • reason out,
  • resign,
  • defense force,
  • legitimatize,
  • spout,
  • legal brief,
  • authorize,
  • arouse,
  • foot,
  • department of defense,
  • beg off,
  • labour,
  • top,
  • nowadays,
  • nucleotide,
  • whizz,
  • book,
  • spectator,
  • narrative,
  • pop the question,
  • reckon,
  • itch,
  • confirmative,
  • defense mechanism,
  • oblige,
  • creep,
  • exemplifying,
  • edit,
  • blaspheme,
  • betterment,
  • consecrate,
  • pictorial,
  • purpose,
  • purport,
  • melt,
  • passing,
  • clutch,
  • attestator,
  • ticket tout,
  • make out,
  • proceeds,
  • offer,
  • burn,
  • method of accounting,
  • apply,
  • reelect,
  • signal,
  • paladin,
  • credit,
  • pass on,
  • free,
  • progress,
  • commend,
  • pressing,
  • intimate,
  • adoption,
  • unclutter,
  • give notice,
  • mechanical press,
  • bear,
  • improvement,
  • generate,
  • witnesser,
  • reference,
  • hack,
  • depose,
  • realize,
  • validatory,
  • composition,
  • obtain,
  • slew,
  • come on,
  • withstand,
  • physiognomy,
  • take to,
  • respondent,
  • notation,
  • press out,
  • compete,
  • usher,
  • attestant,
  • arm,
  • informant,
  • project,
  • drumhead,
  • hold in,
  • slope,
  • wardrobe,
  • concur,
  • substantial,
  • lay down,
  • assoil,
  • cope,
  • showing,
  • warranty,
  • alleviate,
  • directional,
  • salving,
  • procession,
  • bet,
  • bear witness,
  • reduction,
  • bear on,
  • swing,
  • vindicatory,
  • emancipate,
  • trend,
  • refer,
  • paper,
  • lenitive,
  • invoke,
  • patronize,
  • weigh,
  • advanced,
  • betoken,
  • rationalization,
  • demo,
  • trim,
  • backing,
  • collection,
  • perish,
  • sack,
  • campaign,
  • accountancy,
  • unclouded,
  • contract,
  • position,
  • gash,
  • readable,
  • disputation,
  • thin out,
  • palpable,
  • well-defined,
  • advertise,
  • time lag,
  • patent,
  • bespeak,
  • beforehand,
  • point,
  • break up,
  • verbal description,
  • unloosen,
  • appearance,
  • decipherable,
  • represent,
  • exact,
  • exit,
  • news report,
  • consent,
  • making known,
  • evident,
  • go on,
  • decriminalize,
  • spinal column,
  • illuminate,
  • absolve,
  • drop dead,
  • lifelike,
  • vivid,
  • straight,
  • meanspirited,
  • slash,
  • incline,
  • adept,
  • forward motion,
  • exposition,
  • compendious,
  • presentation,
  • weightlift,
  • repugn,
  • onward motion,
  • renounce,
  • department of state,
  • fall,
  • preserve,
  • conclude,
  • fight down,
  • paint a picture,
  • set free,
  • gird,
  • in writing,
  • backward,
  • co-occur with,
  • order,
  • worth,
  • bill,
  • comport,
  • fortify,
  • snip,
  • give up,
  • hotshot,
  • explicate,
  • come back,
  • root,
  • swerve,
  • demulcent,
  • indicative,
  • demonstrative pronoun,
  • shape up,
  • defense department,
  • supplemental,
  • try for,
  • square up,
  • pleader,
  • bluster,
  • tilt,
  • feather,
  • trim down,
  • defensive structure,
  • appealingness,
  • return key,
  • suffer,
  • okay,
  • baseborn,
  • express,
  • handle,
  • feeler,
  • wizard,
  • rant,
  • privilege,
  • resoluteness,
  • regress,
  • plant,
  • looker,
  • stand,
  • baseball swing,
  • put up,
  • nurse,
  • present tense,
  • preach,
  • gain ground,
  • conjure up,
  • disregard,
  • solicitation,
  • averment,
  • check,
  • al qaida,
  • clear up,
  • free-base,
  • halt,
  • accompany,
  • net,
  • star,
  • recall,
  • dispense with,
  • stir,
  • conjure,
  • forego,
  • pull,
  • exalt,
  • reechoing,
  • cornerstone,
  • lowly,
  • protestation,
  • directive,
  • informatory,
  • cargo hold,
  • dilute,
  • beseech,
  • root on,
  • keep up,
  • dissolve,
  • call forth,
  • discharge,
  • protagonism,
  • get ahead,
  • controversy,
  • undercut,
  • punctuate,
  • serve,
  • suppose,
  • slue,
  • bring up,
  • watcher,
  • curve,
  • storey,
  • intelligent,
  • obligate,
  • regaining,
  • wield,
  • pedestal,
  • enjoin,
  • permit,
  • patronise,
  • report card,
  • entertain,
  • advertize,
  • sway,
  • substantiate,
  • hope,
  • systematization,
  • subscribe,
  • constrict,
  • buy the farm,
  • fighter,
  • fundament,
  • second power,
  • postponement,
  • paying back,
  • printing press,
  • skip,
  • rear,
  • prevail,
  • asseveration,
  • supporter,
  • clearly,
  • keep,
  • bring down,
  • acquaint,
  • curb,
  • closet,
  • betrothal,
  • advocator,
  • positive,
  • abduce,
  • release,
  • struggle,
  • resist,
  • repay,
  • dethaw,
  • put in,
  • lay out,
  • gasconade,
  • indorse,
  • understanding,
  • impulse,
  • deal,
  • record,
  • shrive,
  • viewer,
  • postulate,
  • justificative,
  • send word,
  • find,
  • graphical,
  • sheer,
  • clear-cut,
  • cash advance,
  • institute,
  • accent,
  • squeeze,
  • iron out,
  • livelihood,
  • state department,
  • account statement,
  • cold shoulder,
  • parade,
  • extol,
  • bring in,
  • cut down,
  • grounds,
  • resound,
  • weight-lift,
  • sum-up,
  • farther,
  • united states department of state,
  • formalise,
  • digest,
  • square toes,
  • unloose,
  • verification,
  • tailor,
  • confirmatory,
  • video display,
  • replication,
  • prizewinning,
  • cover,
  • grip,
  • solid,
  • progression,
  • absolved,
  • backup,
  • come along,
  • hallow,
  • expire,
  • income tax return,
  • boast,
  • sort out,
  • backrest,
  • substantiation,
  • barrack,
  • charm,
  • spine,
  • directing,
  • edit out,
  • geld,
  • cower,
  • indicative mood,
  • admit,
  • have,
  • foreshorten,
  • squarely,
  • jam,
  • trim back,
  • mown,
  • liberation,
  • foursquare,
  • relieve,
  • contention,
  • tarradiddle,
  • apologise,
  • appreciation,
  • open,
  • conduct,
  • curse,
  • veer,
  • tolerate,
  • logical thinking,
  • slashed,
  • warrantee,
  • light up,
  • common mood,
  • brag,
  • attach to,
  • weakened,
  • dorsum,
  • cutting,
  • exhort,
  • apprise,
  • let go of,
  • keep back,
  • jabber,
  • mitigatory,
  • look,
  • rambling,
  • cut in,
  • smiler,
  • edifying,
  • turn out,
  • entail,
  • cause,
  • foster,
  • kick upstairs,
  • entreat,
  • get on,
  • evoke,
  • strain,
  • aim,
  • accounting system,
  • focus,
  • grovel,
  • insist,
  • collocate with,
  • award,
  • mug,
  • debate,
  • summon,
  • tell,
  • fact mood,
  • citation,
  • decisive,
  • reserve,
  • counselor-at-law,
  • imprimatur,
  • pretend,
  • verb phrase,
  • rave,
  • moderate,
  • quit,
  • mitigate,
  • write up,
  • mention,
  • carry on,
  • gelded,
  • book binding,
  • approach,
  • custody,
  • radical,
  • constitute,
  • line of reasoning,
  • reverberation,
  • favour,
  • die,
  • study,
  • backbone,
  • creeping,
  • set ahead,
  • excision,
  • takings,
  • examination,
  • call down,
  • rachis,
  • groundwork,
  • pull in,
  • forgo,
  • solvent,
  • abridge,
  • humble,
  • reduce,
  • elevate,
  • call,
  • funding,
  • agree,
  • stratum,
  • all the way,
  • iron,
  • thinned,
  • deport,
  • clutches,
  • push button,
  • taradiddle,
  • accompaniment,
  • view as,
  • side of meat,
  • supercharge,
  • formalize,
  • visage,
  • deem,
  • yield,
  • abstract thought,
  • recurrence,
  • take for,
  • hinder,
  • delay,
  • written report,
  • hint,
  • understructure,
  • overture,
  • defense team,
  • entreaty,
  • getting even,
  • self-justification,
  • alkali,
  • devolve,
  • plunk for,
  • collateral,
  • contain,
  • prefer,
  • repeat,
  • trimmed,
  • rely,
  • superstar,
  • bid,
  • forgiveness,
  • undergird,
  • theme,
  • render,
  • sustenance,
  • loose,
  • poke,
  • bring back,
  • emollient,
  • crowd,
  • pad,
  • sanctify,
  • extenuate,
  • summons,
  • observe,
  • salute,
  • prayer,
  • hind,
  • clip,
  • urge on,
  • storage area,
  • financial support,
  • counsel,
  • acknowledgment,
  • substantiative,
  • get-up-and-go,
  • launch,
  • labor,
  • reading,
  • allow,
  • emphasise,
  • gift,
  • documentation,
  • instal,
  • stock-purchase warrant,
  • slice,
  • counselor,
  • grapple,
  • laud,
  • fight,
  • tug,
  • restrain,
  • verificatory,
  • illuminating,
  • carry,
  • brook,
  • take,
  • subsidiary,
  • counter,
  • modification,
  • glorify,
  • vaunt,
  • shorten,
  • bolster up,
  • clasp,
  • give-up the ghost,
  • alleviatory,
  • avouchment,
  • introduce,
  • foundation,
  • mean,
  • deletion,
  • ring,
  • turn off,
  • notify,
  • sack up,
  • brighten,
  • picture,
  • defy,
  • drive,
  • advancement,
  • develop,
  • corroborate,
  • found,
  • base of operations,
  • emphasize,
  • crusade,
  • march,
  • wait,
  • fib,
  • alleviator,
  • suffice,
  • submit,
  • line,
  • harbor,
  • pep up,
  • tax return,
  • living,
  • earn,
  • track,
  • reputation,
  • involve,
  • stem,
  • make do,
  • revert,
  • result,
  • harbour,
  • percipient,
  • bring forward,
  • level,
  • in advance,
  • note,
  • keep going,
  • chime in,
  • settle,
  • backwards,
  • describe,
  • lame,
  • unthaw,
  • prolong,
  • excursive,
  • pose,
  • thin,
  • ignore,
  • virtuoso,
  • conserve,
  • win,
  • apprize,
  • crystallize,
  • reaction,
  • try,
  • logical argument,
  • judge,
  • military press.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • description,
  • Discharging,
  • apology,
  • meriting,
  • espousal,
  • asserting,
  • relinquish,
  • commentary,
  • Excusing,
  • apologize,
  • clearing,
  • freeing,
  • layer,
  • defense,
  • aligning,
  • reasoning,
  • apologetic,
  • disembarrass,
  • Acquitting,
  • defence,
  • echo,
  • report,
  • deserving,
  • Absolving,
  • exculpation,
  • cut,
  • Glossing,
  • rationalisation,
  • explication,
  • arguing,
  • annotation,
  • Disembarrassing,
  • history,
  • explanation,
  • Pardoning,
  • reasserting,
  • Warranting,
  • Maintaining,
  • Legalizing,
  • account,
  • base,
  • liberating,
  • answer,
  • verifying,
  • unfreeze,
  • reply,
  • rationalise,
  • supporting,
  • narration,
  • apologia,
  • Disengaging,
  • recital,
  • excusatory,
  • justification,
  • disengage,
  • retort,
  • Authenticating,
  • relinquishing,
  • championship,
  • tale,
  • rationalising,
  • response,
  • releasing,
  • pruning,
  • substantiating,
  • exoneration,
  • deserve,
  • Establishing,
  • Loosing,
  • Guaranteeing,
  • liberate,
  • Authorizing,
  • Exculpating,
  • Exonerating,
  • Vindicating,
  • assertion,
  • Exempting,
  • rid,
  • definition,
  • Claiming,
  • return,
  • vindication,
  • Apologizing,
  • unloosing,
  • prune,
  • confirming,
  • Dislodging,
  • basis,
  • affirmation,
  • unblocking,
  • apologising,
  • validating,
  • Corroborating,
  • argument,
  • story,
  • compensation,
  • palliative,
  • justificatory,
  • Advocating,
  • advocacy.

Paraphrases for Justifying:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    justify.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    justifications.
  • Verb, past tense
    warranted.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Testifying, verifying, identifying, Signifying, Certifying, rationalizing, Illustrating, support, Explaining, Corroborating, stimulating, legitimising, demonstrating, authorising, confirming, Necessitating, asserting, Indicating, Authorizing, defending, Acknowledging, Citing, Evidencing, Establishing, Discussing, Admitting, motivating, Proving, Warranting, arguing, imposing, Attesting, Describing, Outlining, Permitting, resulting, Declaring, documenting, Underpinning, saying, detailing, underlying, Exhibiting, exhibits, enabling, Granting, Displaying, showing, parts, Requiring, Allowing, surrounding, moving, Applying, Basing, Having, reaching, Stating, Doing.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    supports.
  • Verb, base form
    substantiate, warrant, excuse, merit, condone.