Word Meanings - INDEFENSIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal,

Additional info about word: INDEFENSIBLE

Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDEFENSIBLE)

• Inexcusable
• Unmitigated
• unpardonable
• indefensible
• unjustifiable
• Irremissible
• Unjustifiable
• inexpiable

Related words: (words related to INDEFENSIBLE)

• INEXPIABLE
  1. Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense. Pomfret. 2. Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable. "Inexpiable hate." Milton. They are at inexpiable war with all
• 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
• INEXPIABLENESS
  Quality of being inexpiable.
• UNPARDONABLE
  Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.
• INEXCUSABLENESS
  The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness. South.
• INDEFENSIBLE
  Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal,
• IRREMISSIBLE
  Not remissible; unpardonable; as, irremissible crimes. Burke. -- Ir`re*mis"si*ble, n. -- Ir`re*mis"si*bly, adv.