just, adv.
freq. cnt. 355
freq. cnt. 355
and nothing more
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but just merely only simply
sample sentences
"I was merely asking""it is simply a matter of time"
"just a scratch"
"he was only a child"
"hopes that last but a moment"
lexical pointers
derived from/pertains to
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derived from/pertains to
indicating exactness or preciseness
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exactly just precisely properly
sample sentences
"he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do""it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"
"it has just enough salt"
"Properly speaking, all true work is religion."--Thomas Carlyle
lexical pointers
derived from/pertains to
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derived from/pertains to
only a moment ago
<adv.all> freq. cnt.: 53 freq. cnt.: 52 freq. cnt.: 1
just just now
sample sentences
"he has just arrived""the sun just now came out"
(used for emphasis) absolutely
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just simply
sample sentences
"I just can't take it anymore""he was just grand as Romeo"
"it's simply beautiful!"
semantic pointers
domain of synset (usage)
only a very short time before
<adv.all> freq. cnt.: 72 freq. cnt.: 37 freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 1
barely hardly just scarce scarcely
sample sentences
"we hardly knew them""had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"
"would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
exactly at this moment or the moment described
<adv.all>
just
sample sentences
"we've just finished painting the walls, so don't touch them"
by a little
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barely just
sample sentences
"I only just caught the bus""he finished the marathon in just under 3 hours"
"it was barely 5 a.m."
"the network has barely 5 percent of viewers"
"the batter just missed being hit"
possibly (indicating a slight chance of something being true)
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just