'Due' definitions:
Definition of 'due'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Directly or exactly; straight; "went due North"
adjective
Owed and payable immediately or on demand; "payment is due" [ant: undue]
adjective
Scheduled to arrive; "the train is due in 15 minutes"
adjective
Suitable to or expected in the circumstances; "all due respect"; "due cause to honor them"; "a long due promotion"; "in due course"; "due esteem"; "exercising due care" [ant: undue]
adjective
Capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not imputable to him" [syn: ascribable, due, imputable, referable]
noun
That which is deserved or owed; "give the devil his due"
noun
A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership); "the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"
Definition of 'Due'
From: GCIDE
- Due \Due\, adv. Directly; exactly; as, a due east course. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Due'
From: GCIDE
- Due \Due\, n.
- 1. That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. [1913 Webster]
- He will give the devil his due. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Right; just title or claim. [1913 Webster]
- The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Due'
From: GCIDE
- Due \Due\, a. [OF. deu, F. d[^u], p. p. of devoir to owe, fr. L. debere. See Debt, Habit, and cf. Duty.]
- 1. Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit. [1913 Webster]
- Her obedience, which is due to me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. [1913 Webster]
- This effect is due to the attraction of the sun. --J. D. Forbes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Due'
From: GCIDE
- Due \Due\, v. t. To endue. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'due'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- according to Hoyle,
- accountable,
- accounts payable,
- accounts receivable,
- acknowledgment,
- adequate,
- alleged,
- amount due,
- ample,
- anticipated,
- appropriate,
- appurtenance,
- arrearage,
- arrears,
- ascribable,
- assignable,
- attributable,
- attributed,
- authority,
- awaited,
- back,
- bad debts,
- balanced,
- barely sufficient,
- bill,
- bills,
- birthright,
- borrowing,
- charged,
- charges,
- chits,
- claim,
- cognizance,
- comeuppance,
- coming,
- coming to,
- commensurate,
- compensation,
- competent,
- condign,
- conjugal right,
- correct,
- corresponding,
- credit,
- credited,
- crediting,
- dead,
- dead ahead,
- debt,
- decent,
- decorous,
- defensible,
- demand,
- derivable from,
- derivational,
- derivative,
- deserts,
- deserved,
- deserving,
- direct,
- directly,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due north,
- dueness,
- dues,
- earned,
- enough,
- entitled to,
- entitlement,
- equal to,
- equitable,
- even,
- evenhanded,
- expected,
- explicable,
- faculty,
- fair,
- fair and square,
- financial commitment,
- fit,
- fitting,
- floating debt,
- foreseen,
- forthright,
- funded debt,
- good,
- good enough,
- guerdon,
- hoped-for,
- imminent,
- imputable,
- imputed,
- in a beeline,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in line with,
- in prospect,
- in view,
- inalienable right,
- indebtedness,
- indebtment,
- interest,
- just,
- justifiable,
- justified,
- kosher,
- lawful,
- legal,
- level,
- liability,
- long-expected,
- lust,
- mature,
- maturity,
- meet,
- meet and right,
- merit,
- merited,
- meriting,
- meritorious,
- minimal,
- minimum,
- national debt,
- natural right,
- need,
- nice,
- normal,
- normative,
- obligation,
- on the horizon,
- outstanding,
- outstanding debt,
- overdue,
- owed,
- owing,
- payable,
- payment,
- pledge,
- plenty,
- plenty good enough,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumed,
- presumptive right,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- probable,
- promised,
- proper,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- proportionate,
- prospective,
- public debt,
- putative,
- receivable,
- recognition,
- recompense,
- recompensing,
- redeemable,
- referable,
- referred to,
- repayment,
- reprisal,
- requisite,
- retaliation,
- retribution,
- revenge,
- reward,
- right,
- right and proper,
- righteous,
- rightful,
- rights,
- satisfaction,
- satisfactory,
- score,
- seemly,
- square,
- straight,
- straight across,
- straight ahead,
- straightforward,
- straightforwards,
- straightly,
- substantial,
- sufficient,
- sufficient for,
- sufficing,
- suitable,
- title,
- traceable,
- uncollectibles,
- undeviatingly,
- unfulfilled pledge,
- unpaid,
- unsettled,
- unswervingly,
- unveeringly,
- up to,
- vengeance,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- warrantable,
- warranted,
- what is owing,
- worthy of