judgment

judgment is a 8-letter English word with 15 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 25 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
2. intransitive verb. The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
3. intransitive verb. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
4. intransitive verb. The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.
5. intransitive verb. That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
6. intransitive verb. That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
7. intransitive verb. A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
8. intransitive verb. The final award; the last sentence.
9. noun. the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

   "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"

   Synonyms: assessment, judgement

10. noun. (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it

    Synonyms: judgement

11. noun. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

    Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity

12. noun. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

    Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity

13. noun. the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

    Synonyms: judgement, judging

14. noun. an opinion formed by judging something

    "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"

    "she changed her mind"

    Synonyms: judgement, mind

15. noun. the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

    "opinions are usually written by a single judge"

    Synonyms: judgement, opinion

Synonyms

assessment, judgement, perspicacity, discernment, sagaciousness, sagacity, judging, mind, opinion

Common word forms

judgments, judgmental

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