adjadj.allused especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fittingExamples:- a just and lasting peace - A.Lincoln
- a kind and just man
- a just reward
- his just inheritance
Antonyms:unjust
Derivationally Related Form:justness
Inherited Hypernyms:just
Similar to:conscionable fitting meet retributive retributory vindicatory rightful
See also:fair honorable honourable just right righteous
adjadj.allfair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscienceSynset:equitable
Examples:- equitable treatment of all citizens
- an equitable distribution of gifts among the children
Antonyms:inequitable
Derivationally Related Form:justness
Inherited Hypernyms:equitable
Similar to:evenhanded fair honest
See also:fair impartial just just
adjadj.allfree from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rulesAttributes:equity fairness
Synset:fair
Examples:- a fair referee
- fair deal
- on a fair footing
- a fair fight
- by fair means or foul
Antonyms:unfair
Derivationally Related Form:justnessfairness
Inherited Hypernyms:fair
Similar to:antimonopoly antitrust clean sporting sportsmanlike sporty fair-and-square fair-minded
See also:impartial just reasonable sensible
adj satadj.allof moral excellenceSynset:good upright
Examples:- a genuinely good person
- a just cause
- an upright and respectable man
Antonyms:unrighteous
Derivationally Related Form:uprightnessjustnessgoodness
Inherited Hypernyms:good
Similar to:righteous
advadv.alland nothing moreSynset:but merely only simply
Examples:- I was merely asking
- it is simply a matter of time
- just a scratch
- he was only a child
- hopes that last but a moment
Pertainyms:simplemere
Inherited Hypernyms:merely
advadv.allindicating exactness or precisenessSynset:exactly precisely properly
Examples:- he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do
- it was just as he said--the jewel was gone
- it has just enough salt
- Properly speaking, all true work is religion."--Thomas Carlyle
Pertainyms:preciseexact
Inherited Hypernyms:precisely
advadv.all(used for emphasis) absolutelyDomain Usage:intensifierintensive
Synset:simply
Examples:- I just can't take it anymore
- he was just grand as Romeo
- it's simply beautiful!
Inherited Hypernyms:just
advadv.allonly a very short time beforeSynset:barely hardly scarce scarcely
Examples:- we hardly knew them
- had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
- would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave - W.B.Yeats
Inherited Hypernyms:barely
advadv.allby a littleSynset:barely
Examples:- I only just caught the bus
- he finished the marathon in just under 3 hours
- it was barely 5 a.m.
- the network has barely 5 percent of viewers
- the batter just missed being hit
Inherited Hypernyms:barely