Word Meanings - EXCUSABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action. -- Ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ex*cus"a*bly, adv. The excusableness of my dissatisfaction. Boyle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCUSABLE)

• Irresponsible
• Unbound
• unencumbered
• unaccountable
• excusable
• lawless
• arbitrary
• despotic
• Pardonable
• Venial
• remissible
• justifiable

Related words: (words related to EXCUSABLE)

• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• VENIALITY
  The quality or state of being venial; venialness. Jer. Taylor.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• DESPOTIC; DESPOTICAL
  Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness, n.
• UNENCUMBER
  To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
• IRRESPONSIBLE
  1. Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent. 2. Not to be trusted; unreliable.
• PARDONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.
• 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.
• EXCUSABLE
  That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action. -- Ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ex*cus"a*bly, adv. The excusableness of my dissatisfaction. Boyle.
• VENIAL
  forgiveness, pardon, grace, favor, kindness; akin to venerari to 1. Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression. So they do nothing, 't is a venial slip. Shak. 2. Allowed; permitted.
• LAWLESS
  1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim. He needs no indirect nor lawless course. Shak. 2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior. 3. Not subject to the laws
• UNACCOUNTABLE
  1. Not accountable or responsible; free from control. South. 2. Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious. -- Un`ac*count"a*ble*ness}, n. -- Un`ac*count"a*bly, adv.
• UNBOUNDABLY
  Infinitely. I am . . . unboundably beholding to you. J. Webster .
• PARDONABLE
  Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
• ARBITRARY
  1. Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary
• INEXCUSABLE
  Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
• UNEXCUSABLE
  Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n.
• UNPARDONABLE
  Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.
• IMPARDONABLE
  Unpardonable. South.
• INEXCUSABLENESS
  The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness. South.
• CLAWLESS
  Destitute of claws.
• FLAWLESS
  Free from flaws. Boyle.
• IRREMISSIBLE
  Not remissible; unpardonable; as, irremissible crimes. Burke. -- Ir`re*mis"si*ble, n. -- Ir`re*mis"si*bly, adv.