judge
judge is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
- intransitive verb. One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
- intransitive verb. A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
- intransitive verb. One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
- intransitive verb. The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
- adjective. To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
- adjective. To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.
- transitive verb. To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.
- transitive verb. To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
- transitive verb. To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
- transitive verb. To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
- transitive verb. To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
- transitive verb. To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
- noun. an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
- noun. a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- verb. form a critical opinion of "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
"I cannot judge some works of modern art"
"How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"
- verb. determine the result of (a competition)
- verb. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
"I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
- verb. pronounce judgment on
"They labeled him unfit to work here"
- verb. put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
"The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"
"The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"
Synonyms
evaluator, jurist, justice, evaluate, approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, label, pronounce, adjudicate, try
Common word forms
judged, judger, judges, judging, judgeable, judgeless, judgement
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