Word Meanings - JUSTICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each

Additional info about word: JUSTICE

1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JUSTICE)

• Honesty
• Integrity
• probity
• uprightness
• straightforwardness
• fairness
• sincerity
• honor
• rectitude
• virtue
• justice
• veracity
• Judge
• Justice
• magistrate
• arbitrator
• umpire
• referee
• critic
• connoisseur
• authority
• arbiter
• Reason
• Ground
• account
• cause
• explanation
• motive
• proof
• apology
• understanding
• reasoning
• rationality
• right
• propriety
• order
• object
• sake
• purpose
• Right
• Rectitude
• correctness
• straightness
• integrity
• truth
• fitness
• suitableness
• claim
• power
• privilege
• Tribunal
• Judgment seat
• court of justice
• bench
• bar
• court

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of JUSTICE)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Repel
• disaffect
• insult
• avoid
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to JUSTICE)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• CONNOISSEUR
  One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt. (more
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• ONIROCRITIC
  See ONEIROCRITIC
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.