justificatory
71explanatory — a. 1. Illustrative, elucidative, expository, serving to explain. 2. Accounting, justifying, justificative, justificatory, warranting, giving reasons, vindicative, vindicatory, tracing to causes or principles …
72extenuating — adjective a just decision must allow for extenuating circumstances Syn: mitigating, excusing, exonerative, palliative, justifying, justificatory, vindicating; formal exculpatory …
73mitigating — adjective if not for mitigating circumstances, he would have been convicted Syn: extenuating, justificatory, justifying, vindicating, qualifying; face saving; formal exculpatory …
74apologetic — adj 1. sorry, regretful, remorseful, contrite, in sackcloth and ashes; expiatory, penitential, penitent, repentant; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, rueful, compunctious; self reproachful, self condemnatory, self condemning, self… …
75excusatory — adj exculpatory, exonerative, vindicatory, vindicative; apologetic, justificatory; extenuating, mitigating …
76explanatory — adj descriptive, justificatory, explicative; elucidative, commentarial, illustrative, expressive; interpretive, expository, exegetic …
77mitigating — adj extenuating, extenuative, extenuatory, palliative, mitigative, mitigatory; exculpatory, exonerative, justifying, justificatory, justificative, excusatory, vindicating, vindicatory, vindicative; qualifying, modifying, tempering …
78parenthetic — adj parenthetical, incidental, by the way; subordinate, secondary, inconsequential; extrinsic, extrinsical, extraneous, external, nonessential, unessential, inessential, adventitious; inserted, interposed, interjacent, intermediate, intermediary …
79vindicatory — adj 1. exculpatory, exculpating, acquitting, compurgatory, exonerative, exonerating, vindicative, vindicating, absolutory, absolvent, absolving, excusatory, excusing; justificatory, justificative, justifying, extenuatory, extenuating, mitigative …
80vindicatory — /vɪndəˈkeɪtəri/ (say vinduh kaytuhree), /ˈvɪndəkətri/ (say vinduhkuhtree) adjective 1. serving to vindicate. 2. justificatory. 3. punitive; retributive. Also, vindicative /vɪnˈdɪkətɪv/ (say vin dikuhtiv) …
