'Just' definitions:
Definition of 'just'
(from WordNet)
adverb
And nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: merely, simply, just, only, but]
adverb
Indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt" [syn: precisely, exactly, just]
adverb
Only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now came out" [syn: just, just now]
adverb
Absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!" [syn: just, simply]
adverb
Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce]
adverb
Exactly at this moment or the moment described; "we've just finished painting the walls, so don't touch them";
adjective
Used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting; "a just and lasting peace"- A.Lincoln; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance" [ant: unjust]
adjective
Fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience; "equitable treatment of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children" [syn: equitable, just] [ant: inequitable, unjust]
adjective
Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul" [syn: fair, just] [ant: unfair, unjust]
adjective
Definition of 'Just'
From: GCIDE
- Just \Just\, n. A joust. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Just'
From: GCIDE
- Just \Just\, a. [F. juste, L. justus, fr. jus right, law, justice; orig., that which is fitting; akin to Skr. yu to join. Cf. Injury, Judge, Jury, Giusto.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things. "O just but severe law!" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. --Eccl. vii. 20. [1913 Webster]
- Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have. --Lev. xix. 36. [1913 Webster]
- How should man be just with God? --Job ix. 2. [1913 Webster]
- We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference. [1913 Webster]
- Just of thy word, in every thought sincere. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He was a comely personage, a little above just stature. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Their names alone would make a just volume. --Burton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge. [1913 Webster]
- Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament. --H. W. Poole.
- Syn: Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Just'
From: GCIDE
- Just \Just\, adv.
- 1. Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated. [1913 Webster]
- And having just enough, not covet more. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Closely; nearly; almost. [1913 Webster]
- Just at the point of death. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late. [1913 Webster]
- A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Just'
From: GCIDE
- Just \Just\, v. i. [See Joust.] To joust. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'just'
From: GCIDE
- Joust \Joust\ (joust or j[u^]st; 277), v. i. [OE. justen, jousten, OF. jouster, jouster, joster, F. jouter, fr. L. juxta near to, nigh, from the root of jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Jostle.]
- 1. To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.] [1913 Webster +PJC]
- For the whole army to joust and tourney. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent. [PJC]
Definition of 'just'
From: GCIDE
- Joust \Joust\, n. [OE. juste, jouste, OF. juste, jouste, joste, F. joute. See Joust, v. i.]
- 1. A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field. [Written also just.] [1913 Webster]
- Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'just'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- absolutely,
- accurate,
- accurately,
- actionable,
- admissible,
- all,
- all in all,
- all right,
- all-knowing,
- all-powerful,
- all-seeing,
- all-wise,
- almighty,
- almost,
- alone,
- aloof,
- altogether,
- angelic,
- applicable,
- appropriate,
- approximately,
- apt,
- as well,
- at best,
- at most,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- awfully,
- balanced,
- bang,
- barely,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- binding,
- blameless,
- boundless,
- but,
- changeless,
- Christian,
- clean,
- cogent,
- comely,
- competent,
- completely,
- condign,
- conscientious,
- consistent,
- constitutional,
- correct,
- creating,
- creative,
- credible,
- creditable,
- dead,
- dead right,
- decent,
- defensible,
- definitely,
- dependable,
- deserved,
- detached,
- directly,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- due,
- equal,
- equitable,
- erect,
- estimable,
- eternal,
- eternally the same,
- ethical,
- even,
- evenhanded,
- everlasting,
- exactly,
- exceedingly,
- exclusively,
- expressly,
- fair,
- fair and square,
- fair-minded,
- faithful,
- faithfully,
- faultless,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitting,
- flawless,
- full of integrity,
- glorious,
- godly,
- good,
- hallowed,
- happy,
- hardly,
- high-minded,
- high-principled,
- highest,
- highly respectable,
- holy,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immaculate,
- immortal,
- immutable,
- impartial,
- impersonal,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- in toto,
- indifferent,
- infinite,
- inspired,
- inviolate,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- irreproachable,
- judicial,
- juridical,
- just now,
- just right,
- justiciable,
- justifiable,
- justified,
- kosher,
- lately,
- law-abiding,
- law-loving,
- law-revering,
- lawful,
- lawmaking,
- legal,
- legislative,
- legit,
- legitimate,
- letter-perfect,
- level,
- licit,
- limitless,
- literally,
- literatim,
- logical,
- loving,
- luminous,
- majestic,
- making,
- manly,
- meet,
- meet and right,
- merciful,
- merely,
- merited,
- meticulous,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- moral,
- nearly,
- neutral,
- noble,
- numinous,
- objective,
- OK,
- okay,
- omnipotent,
- omnipresent,
- omniscient,
- one,
- only,
- only just,
- only too,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- plainly,
- plausible,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- positively,
- powerful,
- powerfully,
- precisely,
- pretty,
- principled,
- proper,
- pure,
- purely,
- quite,
- radiant,
- rational,
- real,
- really,
- reasonable,
- reliable,
- reputable,
- requisite,
- respectable,
- right,
- right and proper,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- rightful,
- rigid,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- sacred,
- saintlike,
- saintly,
- sanctioned,
- sane,
- scarce,
- scarcely,
- scrupulous,
- seemly,
- self-consistent,
- sensible,
- seraphic,
- shaping,
- sharp,
- simply,
- simply and solely,
- singly,
- smack-dab,
- so,
- solely,
- solid,
- sound,
- sovereign,
- spang,
- spotless,
- square,
- squarely,
- stainless,
- statutory,
- sterling,
- straight,
- straight-up-and-down,
- strict,
- strictly,
- substantial,
- sufficient,
- suitable,
- supreme,
- terribly,
- terrifically,
- timeless,
- to the letter,
- totally,
- tried,
- true,
- true-dealing,
- true-devoted,
- true-disposing,
- true-souled,
- true-spirited,
- truehearted,
- trustworthy,
- ubiquitous,
- unbiased,
- unblemished,
- unbounded,
- unchanging,
- uncolored,
- uncorrupt,
- uncorrupted,
- undazzled,
- undefiled,
- undefined,
- undeviatingly,
- undistorted,
- unerringly,
- unimpeachable,
- uninfluenced,
- unjaundiced,
- unlimited,
- unmistakably,
- unprejudiced,
- unprepossessed,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- unswayed,
- untarnished,
- upright,
- uprighteous,
- upstanding,
- utterly,
- valid,
- veracious,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- veridical,
- very,
- virtuous,
- warrantable,
- warranted,
- weighty,
- well-argued,
- well-chosen,
- well-expressed,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-put,
- wholesome,
- wholly,
- within the law,
- word by word,
- word for word,
- worthy,
- yeomanly