just

Adjective

• of moral excellence
  • a genuinely good person
    
  • a just cause
    
  • an upright and respectable man
    

• free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
  • a fair referee
    
  • fair deal
    
  • on a fair footing
    
  • a fair fight
    
  • by fair means or foul
    

• fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
  • equitable treatment of all citizens
    
  • an equitable distribution of gifts among the children
    

• 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
    

Adverb

• exactly at this moment or the moment described;
  • we've just finished painting the walls, so don't touch them
    

• only a very short time before
  • 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
    

• absolutely
  • I just can't take it anymore
    
  • he was just grand as Romeo
    
  • it's simply beautiful!
    

• only a moment ago
  • he has just arrived
    
  • the sun just now came out
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  good , upright , fair , equitable , barely , hardly , scarcely , scarce , simply , just now , precisely , exactly , merely , only , but
• Antonyms: 
  unfair , unjust , inequitable