Just word meaning and definition

[adv] by a small margin; "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"- W.B.Yeats
[adv] and nothing more; "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"
[adv] only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now came out"
[adv] 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"; "it has just enough salt"
[adv] (intensifier) absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!"
[adjective] free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
[adjective] implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all; "equitable treatment of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"
[adjective] used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting; "a just and lasting peace"- A.Lincoln; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance"
[adjective] of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass

\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 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}. (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. Syn: Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.
\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\, v. i. [See {Joust}.] To joust. --Fairfax.
\Just\, n. A joust. --Dryden.

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