undefensible
- adjective
- /ˌʌndɪˈfɛnsəbl/
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indefendible
- Actually, the most important difference is that if not for the Iraq invasion, all those foreign Islamist crazies blowing people up in Iraq (and being killed by the thousands) would instead be doing their damndest to get across our undefended and near undefensible borders.
Examples
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Again, childish attacks typical of liberals in defense of the undefensible.
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And what happened to that man... undefensible.
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And another thing, any judge who'd agree that cutting from whole cloth a right to privacy conferring the right to end a human life in its most incontrovertibly innocent and undefensible, vulnerable state is not going to be a strict constitutional constructionalist.
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The defendant's actions were simply undefensible in the eyes of the jury.
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Her explanation for missing the deadline was undefensible and did not satisfy the committee.
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The policy was deemed undefensible by many experts, leading to its eventual repeal.
Synonyms
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5.6
Too bad to be forgiven
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8.2
Impossible to defend against criticism
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7.5
People cannot show a decision or action is right when others criticize it
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6.8
You cannot show it is right or acceptable
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6.8
No one can show it is right
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7.8
Impossible to defend or accept without proof
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7.4
Too weak to be protected from attack or criticism
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8.1
An action or comment that no one can give a good reason for
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9.2
Cannot be shown to be right or fair
Cannot be supported by proof or good reasons
Not able to be defended in an argument or court
Antonyms
How Defensible
Surface Forms
Morphology
undefensible = defensible (transparent) = un + defend + ible
Formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to 'defensible', whose relation to 'defend' + '-ible' is clear.
Etymology
Undefensible is made from un- meaning 'not' and defensible, from defend meaning 'to protect' or 'support', like the everyday word defense. So undefensible describes something you cannot protect, defend, or justify.