Word Meanings - JUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
orig., that which is fitting; akin to Skr. yu to join. Cf. Injury, 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.
Additional info about word: JUST
orig., that which is fitting; akin to Skr. yu to join. Cf. Injury, 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. The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JUST)
- Accurate
- Careful
- exact
- faithful
- precise
- correct
- close
- truthful
- strict
- just
- actual
- nice
- Condign
- Deserved
- merited
- meet
- adequate
- Owing
- attributable
- fair
- proper
- suitable
- becoming
- tit
- owed
- appropriate
- obligatory
- Equitable
- Fair
- proportionate
- impartial
- upright
- reasonable
- even-handed
- honest
- Open
- clear
- spotless
- unspotted
- untarnished
- unblemished
- serene
- beautiful
- honorable
- equitable
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of JUST)
Related words: (words related to JUST)
- OWNER
One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak. - ACCURATENESS
The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision. - CONDIGN
1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer - BEAUTIFUL
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - HONESTY
Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - EXACTOR
One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor. - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - PROPER
Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good. - EXACTING
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n. - ACTUALIZE
To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge. - STRICT
Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - CLEARER
A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison. - ATTRIBUTABLE
Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker. - CORRUPTIBLE
1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. - FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - DOWNWEED
Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CROWN SIDE
See OFFICE - DOWNPOUR
A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower. - ROWDY
One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - TOWELING
Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. - SNOWPLOW; SNOWPLOUGH
An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc. - KNOWINGLY
1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak. - EMBOWER
To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i. - SORROW
The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.