unjustified

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ justified.

Adjective

unjustified (comparative more unjustified, superlative most unjustified)

1. Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.

   Antonym: justified

   Hyponym: unprovoked

   Near-synonym: unjustifiable

   the unjustified killing of an innocent

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

     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.

   • 2022 February 23, Jeremy Herb, Donald Judd and Phil Mattingly, “Biden condemns ‘Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

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

2. (typography) 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)

   Antonym: justified

   unjustified text in a wordprocessor

Translations

unwarranted

• Belarusian: неапра́ўданы (njeapráŭdany), неапраўда́ны (njeapraŭdány)
• Bulgarian: неопра́вдан (bg) (neoprávdan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: epäoikeutettu
• French: injustifié (fr)
• Georgian: გაუმართლებელი (gaumartlebeli)
• German: unbegründet (de) n, ungerechtfertigt
• Greek: αδικαιολόγητος (el) (adikaiológitos), αβάσιμος (el) (avásimos)
• Manx: gyn oyr, aggairagh (of verdict)
• Maori: pokerehū
• Polish: bezpodstawny (pl), bezzasadny (pl), nieuzasadniony (pl)
• Russian: неопра́вданный (ru) (neoprávdannyj)
• Spanish: injustificado (es)
• Ukrainian: неви́правданий (nevýpravdanyj)

Verb

unjustified

1. simple past and past participle of unjustify