JUDICIAL

adj. 1 legal, judiciary, judicatory, juridic(al); official forensic A formal judicial procedure can be quite costly 2 critical, analytical, discriminating, distinguishing, discerning, keen, sharp, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, differentiating, discriminatory, discriminative, judicious Her decisions have always been judicial 3 judgelike, magisterial, impartial, fair He brought judicial procedures to bear on the handling of the problem