unjustified

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adjective

Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.

“Near-synonym: unjustifiable”

Similar
unjustifiableundueunwarrantedunreasonable
Opposite
justified
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Meanings

adjectiveunjustified (comparative more unjustified, superlative most unjustified)

comparative more unjustified · superlative most unjustified

  1. Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.

    Near-synonym: unjustifiable

    3 more examples

    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.

    2005, Christopher Gidlow, Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend, The History Press, →ISBN

    US President Joe Biden condemned Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces” in a statement Wednesday evening following explosions in Ukraine.

    2022 February 23, Jeremy Herb, Donald Judd and Phil Mattingly, “Biden condemns ‘Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine’”, in CNN

    Synonyms: unjustifiable · Antonyms: justified

  2. mediaNot 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

    Antonyms: justified

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unjustify

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot justified, having no justification, unwarranted.

Similar
unjustifiable
Opposite
justified

adjectiveNot 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)

Opposite
justified

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivelacking justification or authorization

Similar
undueunwarrantedunreasonable
Also see
baselessgratuitousgroundlessill-foundedill-groundedundueunfoundedungroundedunjustifiableunprovenunreasonableunsubstantiatedunsupportedunwarrantedwanton

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From un- + justified.

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Translations

Bulgarian неопра́вдан
  • неопра́вдан (neoprávdan)unwarranted
Chinese Mandarin 無理由的 /无理由的, 不正當的 /不正当的
  • 無理由的 /无理由的 (wú lǐyóu de)unwarranted
  • 不正當的 /不正当的 (bù zhèngdàng de)unwarranted
Finnish epäoikeutettu
  • epäoikeutettuunwarranted
French injustifié
  • injustifiéunwarranted
German unbegründet, ungerechtfertigt
  • unbegründetunwarranted
  • ungerechtfertigtunwarranted
Greek αδικαιολόγητος, αβάσιμος
  • αδικαιολόγητος (adikaiológitos)unwarranted
  • αβάσιμος (avásimos)unwarranted
Māori pokerehū
  • pokerehūunwarranted
Polish bezpodstawny, bezzasadny
  • bezpodstawnyunwarranted
  • bezzasadnyunwarranted
  • nieuzasadnionyunwarranted
Russian неопра́вданный
  • неопра́вданный (neoprávdannyj)unwarranted
Spanish injustificado, sin justificación
  • injustificadounwarranted
  • sin justificaciónunwarranted
Ukrainian неви́правданий
  • неви́правданий (nevýpravdanyj)unwarranted
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APA

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MLA

“unjustified.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unjustified. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unjustified,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unjustified.

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