1. honorable and fair in one's dealings and actions: a just ruler. see synonyms at fair1.
2. consistent with what is morally right; righteous: a just cause.
3. properly due or merited: just deserts.
4. law valid within the law; lawful: just claims.
5. suitable or proper in nature; fitting: a just touch of solemnity.
6. based on fact or sound reason; well-founded: a just appraisal.
7. precisely; exactly: just enough salt.
8. only a moment ago: he just arrived.
9. by a narrow margin; barely: just missed being hit; just caught the bus before it pulled away.
10. at a little distance: just down the road.
11. merely; only: just a scratch.
12. simply; certainly: it's just beautiful!
13. perhaps; possibly: I just may go.
14. just about almost; very nearly: this job is just about done.
15. just now only a moment ago.
16. just the same nevertheless.
17. variant of joust.

1. factually fair; correct; proper.
2. morally fair; upright; righteous, equitable.
3. only, simply, merely.
4. used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.
5. used to convey a less serious or formal tone
6. used to show humility.
7. moments ago, recently
8. by a narrow margin; closely; nearly
9. exactly, perfectly.
10. precisely
11. A joust, tournament.
12. to joust, fight a tournament.

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.
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
3. rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial.
4. precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
5. closely; nearly; almost.
6. barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time
7. A joust.
8. to joust.

1. right in law or ethics
2. right in character or quality
3. strictly accurate; exact; precise; proper.
4. agreeable to the common standard; full; complete.
5. right-minded; good in intention
6. carefully mindful; faithful; followed by to, and formerly also by of: as, to be just to one's engagements.
7. in music, harmonically pure, correct, and exact; in perfect tune: as, just interval, intonation, temperament: opposed in general to impure and incorrect, and specifically to tempered.
8. exactly, in space, time, kind, or degree; precisely; without interval, deviation, or variation; absolutely: as, just five miles; just noon; just so; just as I thought.
9. within a little; with very little but a sufficient difference; nearly; almost exactly; as, I stood just by him; I saw him just now.
10. merely; barely; by or with a narrow margin: as, you just missed the mark; he is just a little displeased.
11. but now; very lately; within a brief past time.
12. quite: in intensive use: as, just awful.
13. directly; immediately; without delay: as, I will attend to it just now.
14. to engage in a tournament or just; tilt.
15. A military contest or spectacle in which two adversaries attacked each other with blunted lances, rarely with sharp weapons as in war; a knightly tilt.
16. A pot or jug, made of earthenware or metal, with large body and straight neck, for holding liquids.
17. an abbreviation of justice;
18. of Justinian.

1. of moral excellence
2. exactly at this moment or the moment described
3. fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
4. absolutely
5. only a very short time before
6. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
7. indicating exactness or preciseness
8. only a moment ago
9. and nothing more
10. used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting