warrantable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: war=rant=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

warrantable, a. 

 Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.  [1913 Webster]
"His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

warrantable, adj.
1 able to be warranted.
2 (of a stag) old enough to be hunted (5 or 6 years).

Derivative

warrantableness n. warrantably adv.

THESAURUS

warrantable

admissible, allowable, balanced, condonable, defensible, deserved, dispensable, due, equitable, even, evenhanded, excusable, exemptible, expiable, fair, fair and square, fit, forgivable, good, inoffensive, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, legitimate, legitimized, level, licit, meet, meet and right, merited, pardonable, permissible, proper, reasonable, remissible, right, right and proper, rightful, sanctionable, square, tenable, unobjectionable, venial, vindicable, warranted