I. adjective
1.
Synonyms: well-founded , cogent, good, justified, well-grounded
2.
Synonyms: true 3, faithful, right, strict, undistorted, veracious, veridical
3.
being what is called for by circumstances or accepted standards
punishments once considered fair and just are now held to be cruel, excessive, and unreasonable
Synonyms: appropriate, condign, deserved, due, merited, requisite, rhadamanthine, right, rightful, suitable; compare fit 1
Related Word: fit, fitting, meet, proper
Contrasted words: farfetched, irrelevant, remote, unconnected; improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate; abusive, cruel, harsh
Antonyms: unjust
4.
Synonyms: upright 2, conscientious, honest, honorable, right, scrupulous, true
Related Word: rigid, strict; dependable, reliable, tried, trustworthy
5.
Synonyms: fair 4, dispassionate, equal, equitable, impartial, nondiscriminatory, objective, unbiased, uncolored, unprejudiced
Related Word: aloof; condign, due, rightful
Antonyms: unjust
6.
Synonyms: fit 1, appropriate, apt, befitting, felicitous, fitting, happy, meet, proper, suitable
II. adverb
1.
as stated or indicated without deviation
just six inches long
Synonyms: accurately, bang, exactly, precisely, right, sharp, ||smack-dab, spang, square, squarely
Related Word: definitely, directly, expressly, unmistakably
Contrasted words: almost, nearly; approximately, imprecisely, inaccurately, inexactly, loosely
2.
by a very small margin
just enough food for one meal
Synonyms: barely, hardly, scarce, scarcely
Related Word: almost, approximately, nearly
Contrasted words: copiously, fully, generously, lavishly, unstintedly, unstintingly
3.
no more than
just a note to remind you
Synonyms: but, merely, only, simply
Idioms: nothing but
4.
Synonyms: all 1, all in all, altogether, completely, exactly, in toto, quite, totally, utterly, wholly
5.
Synonyms: even 1, as well, exactly, expressly, precisely