defendable
Definition
- Adjective:
- Capable of being defended: Able to be protected, guarded, or justified against attack, criticism, or challenge.
Usage
- The word "defendable" describes a position, argument, idea, or physical location that can be supported, protected, or maintained successfully.
- It is often used in contexts of debate, military strategy, law, and logic to indicate that something is not easily refuted or overrun.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The hilltop provided a defendable position against the advancing army.
- Her thesis on climate change is logically sound and entirely defendable.
- From a legal standpoint, the company's actions were defendable under the existing regulations.
Advanced Usage
- "Militarily defendable": Refers specifically to a location that can be protected from armed assault.
- The castle was chosen as the capital because it was the most militarily defendable location in the region.
- "Philosophically defendable": Describes an idea or ethical stance that can be supported with reasoned arguments.
- Utilitarianism is a philosophically defendable framework for many public policy decisions.
Variants and Related Words
- Defend (verb): To protect from harm or danger; to support or justify by argument.
- Soldiers defend the border.
- Defensible (adjective): An alternative and more common synonym for "defendable," with identical meaning.
- The lawyer argued that his client's actions were defensible.
- Defender (noun): A person who defends someone or something.
- She is a fierce defender of human rights.
- Defense (noun): The action of defending from or resisting attack; the case presented by or on behalf of the party being accused or sued.
- The country spent billions on its national defense.
Synonyms
- Tenable: Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
- Justifiable: Capable of being shown to be right or reasonable; defensible.
- Supportable: Able to be upheld or defended as valid or correct.
Antonyms
- Indefensible: Not justifiable by argument; unable to be protected against attack.
- Untenable: (Especially of a position or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
- Vulnerable: Susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm.
Adjective
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capable of being defended
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