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just (just)

adjective

  1. right or fair; equitable; impartial a just decision
  2. righteous; upright a just man
  3. deserved; merited just praise
  4. legally right; lawful; rightful
  5. proper, fitting, etc. a just balance of colors
  6. well-founded; reasonable a just suspicion
  7. correct or true a just report
  8. accurate; exact a just measure

Etymology: ME < OFr juste < L justus, lawful, rightful, proper < jus, right, law: see jury

adverb

  1. neither more nor less than; precisely; exactly just one o'clock
  2. almost at the point of; nearly just preparing to leave
  3. no more than; only just a taste, just teasing you
  4. by a very small amount; barely to just miss a train
  5. a very short time ago she has just left
  6. immediately just east of the church
  7. Informal quite; really to feel just fine

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just Idioms

just about

Informal almost; nearly

just now

a moment ago

just the same

☆
Informal nevertheless
just2 definition

just (just)

noun, intransitive verb

joust

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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just Synonyms

just

modif.

  1. Precisely

    exactly, correctly, perfectly; see accurately.

  2. Hardly

    barely, scarcely, by very little; see hardly.

  3. Only

    merely, simply, plainly; see only 2.

  4. At the present

    right now, just now, at this moment, presently; see now 1.

  5. Recently

    just a while ago, lately, a moment ago; see just now, recently.

  6. *Very

    really, simply, quite; see very.

  7. Fair

    impartial, equitable, righteous; see fair 1. See syn. study at fair.


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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

just Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

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just quotes

Be just, my lovely swain, and do not take Freedoms you'll not to me allow; Or give Amynta so much freedom back That she may rove as well as you. Let us then love upon the honest square, Since interest neither have designed. For the sly gamester, who ne'er plays me fair, Must trick for trick expect to find.

-Behan, Brendan Francis

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

-Bible (Old Testament)

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

-Bible (NewTestament)

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