used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting
<adj.all> a just and lasting peace a kind and just man a just reward his just inheritance
fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
<adj.all> equitable treatment of all citizens an equitable distribution of gifts among the children
free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
<adj.all> a fair referee fair deal on a fair footing a fair fight by fair means or foul [ adv ]
and nothing more
<adv.all> 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
indicating exactness or preciseness
<adv.all> 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
only a moment ago
<adv.all> he has just arrived the sun just now came out
absolutely
<adv.all> I just can't take it anymore he was just grand as Romeo it's simply beautiful!
only a very short time before
<adv.all> they could barely hear the speaker we hardly knew them just missed being hit had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave
exactly at this moment or the moment described
<adv.all> we've just finished painting the walls, so don't touch them [ adj ]
of moral excellence
<adj.all> a genuinely good person a just cause an upright and respectable man
Just \Just\, a. [F. juste, L. justus, fr. jus right, law, justice; orig., that which is fitting; akin to Skr. yu to join. Cf. {Injury}, {Judge}, {Jury}, {Giusto}.] 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 names 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}. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) 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.
Just \Just\, adv. 1. Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
And having just enough, not covet more. --Dryden.
The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast. --Sir P. Sidney.
To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one. --Shak.
2. Closely; nearly; almost.
Just at the point of death. --Sir W. Temple.
3. Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.
A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail. --Dryden.
{Just now}, the least possible time since; a moment ago.
Just \Just\, v. i. [See {Joust}.] To joust. --Fairfax.
Just \Just\, n. A joust. --Dryden.
Joust \Joust\ (joust or j[u^]st; 277), v. i. [OE. justen, jousten, OF. jouster, jouster, joster, F. jouter, fr. L. juxta near to, nigh, from the root of jungere to join. See {Join}, and cf. {Jostle}.] 1. To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also {just}.] [1913 Webster +PJC]
For the whole army to joust and tourney. --Holland.
2. Hence: To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent. [PJC]
Joust \Joust\, n. [OE. juste, jouste, OF. juste, jouste, joste, F. joute. See {Joust}, v. i.] 1. A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field. [Written also {just}.]
Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament. --Milton.
2. Hence: Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent. [PJC]
Where Italy, in the eyes of their fans, have barely scraped through, Germany have done just enough.
This culture is just so disposable _ a McDonald's culture.
Meanwhile, the circus animals are stuck in Newburgh, N.Y. The company that was transporting the animals took them there, to its headquarters, when the tour broke off after performances in just two cities.
Guenther Dahloff, an economic official of the West German Embassy, rose to say Mr. McPherson's concerns were just "a mirror image" of European concerns about U.S. trade policy, especially the huge new trade bill passed Wednesday.
But then who, just a little later, is this little girl with her back towards us, in white dress and hat and her racquet in her hand and her long black pigtail falling down her back?
At the end of the two years, he says, an undiversified portfolio that held just one or the other investment would have a cumulative return of zero.
"With oil prices supposed to fall, I was looking for new highs in just about every airline stock," Ms. Bockstern said.
The free agents averaged just a 5% salary increase.
If more U.S. companies do get back into D-rams, say critics of the consortium idea, Japanese companies will just bring their advantages to bear on other chip products and markets, making a more wide-ranging industrial policy necessary.
Micek said officers examined the records of a number of fires and noticed that Marts had been at the scene of several. "It just clicked," Micek said.
Here I was, I had just done `The Cosby Show.'
It's got a large and unwieldy cast, with a confusing setup of part-time hosts (Mr. Garagiola, for example, is just on Tuesdays to Thursdays) and none of them are what the show really needs.
A few hours later, the government announced that retail prices had risen at just under 3 3/4 per cent in the 12 months to July. Taken separately, these two figures are unremarkable.
It is just as important that any new DG can stand up to bullying from the likes of Mick Newmarch, the Pru's rumbustious boss, as from the Office of Fair Trading. Hard to imagine who would fit the bill given the ABI's current structure.
With a turnover of just under Pounds 100m a year it is not big enough to insist on improvements from its suppliers.
When interviewed last week, he had just heard bad news from CBS officialdom.
The plan comes just three days before a meeting between the two Germanys and the four World War II allies that divided Germany _ the Soviet Union, United States, Britain, and France _ to discuss the international ramifications of German unity.
With just 3,000 employees, the service is smaller than the New York City Police Department, Morris said, yet its ranks are stationed in every U.S. judicial district from Guam to the Virgin Islands.
"When there's a gap as big as there is between our share price and (breakup value) you have to take it seriously just as a technical matter," Martin told the Journal.
"The hot weather just about melted him away," Mr. Corbett says with a sigh.
The design is slick: The system consists of just a keyboard and a monitor, because a "Personality Pack" containing the computer attaches to the back of the monitor.
I don't think you should just reduce it to a black-white situation," Jackson replied.
If it hadn't been for that destroyer, I would probably be dead," Nguyen, 20, said in an interview just before Independence Day.
The way you gain credibility here is doing these thingsor at least doing them enough to give the impression that you're doing them." That's only just begun.
They will continue to attack where another dog will just bite and run away," Burns said.
"When you were above some of the holes, you just breathed on the ball and hoped it would stop around the cup."
In the three months to June unit costs were just 0.1 per cent higher than in the same period last year, down from 1.3 per cent in the three months to May. Many analysts said they were pleased with the labour cost figures.
When he launched the Sun in September, Ingersoll said he wanted to prove that new newspapers, if properly designed and promoted, could be introduced in the United States just as they had been in other countries.
Patricia Mathis, 33, his mother, said tears just streamed down her face.
Eight doctors and specialists from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, not previously known as a refuge for conservatives, have just reported their findings from an in-depth study of several hundred homeless people in Baltimore.