Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Just
just, adv. [see just, adj.] (webplay: accurate, almost, array, believes, close, common, covet, drive, enough, erecting, exactly, full, influenced, judgments, merely, mock, narrowly, near, opinion, orderly, place, promises, push, reward, setting, straight, suitable, thoughts, thrust, time, true, truth).
- Ready; about.
- Only; merely; no more than.
- Nearly; narrowly.
- Only; about; merely.
- Barely; short time before.
- Almost; not quite.
- Exactly; precisely; immediately.
- Phrase. “Just so”: like this; in this very way.
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