Word family noun defence/defense defendant defender defensiveness adjective defenceless/defenseless defensible ≠ indefensible defensive verb defend adverb defensibly ≠ indefensibly defensively
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdefensiblede‧fen‧si‧ble /dɪˈfensəbəl/ adjective 1 DEFENDa defensible opinion, idea, or action seems reasonable, and you can easily support it OPP indefensible a morally defensible prison system2 DEFENDa defensible building or area is easy to protect against attack —defensibly adverbExamples from the Corpus
defensible• Cooper believes the plan is fair and legally defensible.• I pushed this one step forward and made it defensible at the local level, not the judicial level..• There is no defensible basis for a global answer to this question.• The Democrats have a perfectly defensible case to make, without continuing the fear-mongering.• The highest defensible estimates are several times higher in energy, perhaps magnitude 9. 3 to 9. 5.• If you think it defensible, go on.• No one is more disciplined in adopting a defensible position.• Unfortunately for the advertisers, the first battle has been over the least defensible product. 