Dictionary Entry
just
just is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as adjective, adverb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
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.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.
- 4adverb
Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
- 5adverb
Closely; nearly; almost.
- 6adverb
Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.
- 7intransitive verb
To joust.
- 8noun
A joust.
- 9adjective
free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
"a fair referee"
"fair deal"
Synonyms
- 10adjective
fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
"equitable treatment of all citizens"
"an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"
Synonyms
- 11adjective
used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting- A.Lincoln
"a just and lasting peace"
"a kind and just man"
- 12adjective
of moral excellence
"a genuinely good person"
"a just cause"
- 13adverb
only a very short time before- W.B.Yeats
"they could barely hear the speaker"
"we hardly knew them"
- 14adverb
exactly at this moment or the moment described
"we've just finished painting the walls, so don't touch them"
- 15adverb
and nothing more
"I was merely asking"
"it is simply a matter of time"
- 16adverb
only a moment ago
"he has just arrived"
"the sun just now came out"
- 17adverb
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"
- 18adverb
absolutely
"I just can't take it anymore"
"he was just grand as Romeo"
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