different between just vs appropriate

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /d???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English juste, from Old French juste, from Latin i?stus (“just, lawful, rightful, true, due, proper, moderate”), from Proto-Italic *jowestos, related to Latin i?s (“law, right”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-. Compare Scots juist (“just”), Saterland Frisian juust (“just”), West Frisian just (“just”), Dutch juist (“just”), German Low German jüst (“jüst”), German just (“just”), Danish just (“just”), Swedish just (“just”). Doublet of giusto.

Alternative forms

• jes, jes', jest, jist, jus'

Adjective

just (comparative juster or more just, superlative justest or most just)

1. Factually right, correct; factual.

   It is a just assessment of the facts.

2. Rationally right, correct.
3. Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair.

   It looks like a just solution at first glance.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act, Scene ,^[1]

     My lord, we know your grace to be a man

     Just and upright.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Colossians 4:1,^[2]

     Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

   • 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 23,^[3]

     Looking back over my previously written account of these things, I must insist that I have been altogether juster to Cavor than he has been to me.

4. Proper, adequate.

Synonyms

• right, correct
• righteous, equitable
• proper, adequate

Antonyms

• unjust

Derived terms

• justly
• justness
• sleep of the just

Related terms

• justice

Translations

Adverb

just (not comparable)

1. Only, simply, merely.
2. (sentence adverb) Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.

3. Used to convey a less serious or formal tone

4. Used to show humility.

5. (degree) absolutely, positively

6. Moments ago, recently.
7. By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.
8. Exactly, precisely, perfectly.

   • And having just enough, not covet more.

Synonyms

• (only): merely, simply; see also Thesaurus:merely
• (recently): freshly, lately, newly
• (by a narrow margin): barely, hardly, scarcely; see also Thesaurus:slightly
• (exactly): on the dot, smack-dab; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

just

1. (slang) Expressing dismay or discontent.

Etymology 2

Variation of joust, presumably ultimately from Latin iuxta (“near, besides”).

Noun

just (plural justs)

1. A joust, tournament.

Verb

just (third-person singular simple present justs, present participle justing, simple past and past participle justed)

1. To joust, fight a tournament.

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Translations

References

• just in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• just in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• UJTs, juts

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin i?stus, j?stus, from Proto-Italic *jowestos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??ust/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??ust/

Adjective

just (feminine justa, masculine plural justs or justos, feminine plural justes)

1. fair; just

   Antonym: injust

2. perfect, almost perfect

Derived terms

• justament
• justesa
• preu just
• tot just

Related terms

• injust
• injustícia
• justícia

Adverb

just

1. justly

Further reading

• “just” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “just” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “just” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “just” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German just or Swedish just. Possibly from German just. See also justament

Adverb

just

1. exactly, precisely, just

   Sa tulid just parajal ajal.

   You came just at the right time.

2. recently, just now, just

   Ma jõudsin just koju.

   I just got home.

3. really (softens what has been said)

   Ta pole just töökas mees.

   He isn't much of a worker.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish just.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?just/, [?jus?t?]
• Rhymes: -ust
• Syllabification: just

Adverb

just

1. (colloquial, dialectal) just, exactly, precisely, perfectly

2. (colloquial) recently, just now

Interjection

just

1. (colloquial) I see, uh-huh, oh well

Synonyms

both:

• aivan
• juuri
• justiin
• justiinsa
• justsa

adverb:

• ihan
• tarkalleen
• täsmälleen

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin i?stus, j?stus.

Adjective

just

1. just, right, correct, proper
2. exact
3. adequate
4. apt

Derived terms

• justeapont
• justeben

Related terms

• justâ
• juste
• justece
• justificâ
• justizie

German

Etymology

Latin i?ste, i?stus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?st/

Adverb

just

1. (solemn) just

   Synonyms: gerade, (archaic) justament

Further reading

• “just” in Duden online
• “just” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latvian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [just]

Verb

just (tr., 1st conj., pres. j?tu, j?ti, j?t, past jutu)

1. to feel (to perceive with one's sense organs)

2. to sense
3. to palp
4. to have a sensation

Conjugation

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

• izjust
• pajust
• sajust

other derived terms:

• justies

Old French

Verb

just

1. third-person singular past historic of gesir

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French juste, Latin j?stus, i?stus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ust/

Adjective

just m or n (feminine singular just?, masculine plural ju?ti, feminine and neuter plural juste)

1. just, correct

Synonyms

• drept, adev?rat, echitabil

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adverb

just (not comparable)

1. just; quite recently; only moments ago
2. just; only, simply
3. exactly, precisely

   Just nu

   Right now (At this precise moment)

   Det var just vad jag ville ha!

   That's exactly what I wanted!

English

Etymology

From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/

Adjective

appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)

1. Suitable or fit; proper.
   • 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster

     in its strict and appropriate meaning

   • 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome

     appropriate acts of divine worship
2. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
3. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Synonyms

• (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable

Antonyms

• (all senses): inappropriate

Derived terms

• appropriateness

Related terms

• proper
• property

Translations

Verb

appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:

     Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.

   • 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

     Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.

2. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
3. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
   • 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"

     “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.

4. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

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Synonyms

• (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
• (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Translations

Further reading

• appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Adjective

appropriate f pl

1. feminine plural of appropriato