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Word Meanings - DEFENSIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause. 2. Capable of offering defense. Shak.

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  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • TENABLENESS
    See TENABILITY
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • DEFENSIBLENESS
    Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • SOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
  • SOUNDING BALLOON
    An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes.
  • SOUND-BOARD
    A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
  • REASONABLE
    1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being. 2. Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason;
  • REASONABLENESS
    Quality of being reasonable.
  • CONSISTENT
    1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
  • SOUNDING-BOARD
    A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
  • SOUNDABLE
    Capable of being sounded.
  • DEFENSIBLE
    1. Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause. 2. Capable of offering defense. Shak.
  • JUSTIFIABLE
    Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton. Syn. -- Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*bly, adv.
  • SOUNDAGE
    Dues for soundings.
  • MAINTAINABLE
    That maybe maintained.
  • SOUND
    The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
  • SOUNDING
    Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. Dryden.
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • MISSOUND
    To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
  • UNREASONABLE
    Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
  • INCONSISTENTLY
    In an inconsistent manner.
  • TREASONABLE
    Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
  • INTENABLE
    Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. Bp. Warburton.
  • INCONSISTENTNESS
    Inconsistency.
  • SELF-CONSISTENT
    Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.

 

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