Defensible
[dɪ'fensɪb(ə)l] or [dɪ'fɛnsəbl]
Definition
(a.) Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.
(a.) Capable of offering defense.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vindicable, justifiable, tenable
ANT:Unjustifiable, untenable, unwarrantable, indefensible
Checker: Raffles
Examples
- This position, naturally a strong and defensible one, was also strongly intrenched. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have been hindered with bad weather, yet our fort is in a good defensible condition, and we have every day more convenient living. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Did big words make it more defensible? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The rest of the Greek army could, meanwhile, make good its retreat to the next defensible pass. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This place was very strongly intrenched, and naturally a very defensible position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is as defensible upon its front as Vicksburg and, at that time, would have been just as impossible to capture by a front attack. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Worth reached a defensible position just out of range of the enemy's guns on the heights north-west of the city, and bivouacked for the night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checker: Raffles