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[adv] by a small margin; "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
[adv] 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"
[adv] only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now came out"
[adv] 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"
[adv] (intensifier) absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!"
[adj] free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
[adj] implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all; "equitable treatment of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"
[adj] 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"
[adj] of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass

Synonyms | Synonyms for Just: antimonopoly | antitrust | barely | but | clean | conscionable | equitable | evenhanded | exactly | fair | fair-and-square | fair-minded | fitting | good | hardly | just now | meet | merely | only | precisely | retributive | retributory | rightful(a) | scarce | scarcely | simply | sporting | sportsmanlike | upright | virtuous

Related Terms | Find terms related to Just: 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 | highest | highly respectable | high-minded | high-principled | 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 | lawful | law-loving | lawmaking | law-revering | 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 | righteous | rightful | right-minded | 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 | truehearted | true-souled | true-spirited | 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

See Also | honorable | honourable | impartial | just | reasonable | right | righteous | sensible

Just In Webster's Dictionary

\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}.] 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. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. -- Eccl. vii. 20. Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have. -- Lev. xix. 36. How should man be just with God? -- Job ix. 2. We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright. -- Shak. 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. Just of thy word, in every thought sincere. -- Pope. The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies. -- Shak. He was a comely personage, a little above just stature. --Bacon. Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat. -- Jer. Taylor. When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array. -- Addison. Their named alone would make a just volume. -- Burton. 3. Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge. Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves. --Tillotson. {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.
\Just\, adv. 1. Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated. And having just enough, not covet more. -- Dryden. The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast. --Sir P. Sidney. To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one. -- Shak. 2. Closely; nearly; almost. Just at the point of death. -- Sir W. Temple. 3. Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late. A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail. -- Dryden. {Just now}, the least possible time since; a moment ago.
\Just\, v. i. [See {Joust}.] To joust. --Fairfax.
\Just\, n. A joust. --Dryden.

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