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unjustified

adj

Etymology

From un- + justified.

Definitions

  1. Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.

    • Near-synonym: unjustifiable
    • the unjustified killing of an innocent
    • Modern sceptical historians are happy to write Dark Age history without naming kings and warleaders of the period, and it seems quite unjustified to take Gildas to task for doing the same thing.

  2. Not justified (of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and…

    Not justified (of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned)

    • unjustified text in a wordprocessor

  3. simple past and past participle of unjustify

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unjustified. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unjustified. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at unjustified

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA