I. adjective
1.
Synonyms: just 3, appropriate, condign, deserved, merited, requisite, rhadamanthine, right, rightful, suitable
Related Word: good, right; equitable, fair, just; coming, earned
Contrasted words: excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate; deficient
Antonyms: undue
2.
having reached the date at which payment is required
a note that would become due after eighteen months
Synonyms: mature, payable
3.
Synonyms: unpaid 2, mature, outstanding, overdue, owing, payable, unsettled
II. noun
1.
what one fairly has coming
the artist has finally been accorded her due
Synonyms: comeuppance, desert(s), deserving, lumps, merit, right(s)
Related Word: deservedness, dueness, entitlement; compensation, payment, recompense, recompensing, repayment, satisfaction; reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance; guerdon, need, reward
Idioms: what is coming to one
2.
Synonyms: debt 3, arrear(s), arrearage, indebtedness, liability
III. adverb
Synonyms: directly 1, dead, direct, right, straight, straightly, undeviatingly