Justice

Noun

 * 1) The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
 * 2) The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.
 * 3) Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged (an)other(s).
 * 4) The civil power dealing with law.
 * 5) A judge of certain courts. Also capitalized as a title.
 * 6) Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.

Adjectives for Justice
distributive; poetical; passionless; ridiculous; temperate; biased; manifest; remarkable; substantial; inordinate; exemplary; swordless; armed; dreadful; summary; strictest; reasoned; eternal; stern; ultimate; resolute; unfailing; knavish; irascible; poetic; distorted; impartial; criminal; universal; rough-handed; wild; even-handed; scanty; presiding; sparing; perfect; divine social; retributive; conservative; inflexible vindictive; moral; common; private; ample striking; strict; tardy; conceded; recompensive; bare; drowsy; immovable; equal exact; slow; cruel; tied-up.

Verbs for Justice
achieve—; administer—; advance—; defeat—; deny—; despair of—; dispense—; do — to; elude—; execute—; hamper—; imperil—; insure—; mete out—; obstruct—; paralyze -; preserve; render—; taint thirst for—; trample—; —evolves; —grows; —hinges on; —rests.

Thesaurus
Astraea, Dike, JP, Jupiter Fidius, Justice, Justitia, Minos, Nemesis, Rhadamanthus, Themis, actionability, applicability, arbiter, arbitrator, assured probity, balance, beak, bencher, blamelessness, blindfolded Justice, cardinal virtues, character, charity, cleanness, coequality, coextension, constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality, correspondence, court, critic, decency, detention, due process, dueness, entitledness, entitlement, equality, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equitableness, equity, equivalence, equivalency, erectness, estimableness, evenness, expectation, fair play, fair-mindedness, fairness, faith, fortitude, good character, goodness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, his honor, his lordship, his worship, honesty, honor, honorableness, hope, identity, immaculacy, impartiality, imprisonment, incarceration, indicator, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, judge, judger, judgment, judicatory, judicature, judicial process, judiciary, judiciousness, jurisdiction, justiciability, justifiable expectation, justness, law, lawfulness, legal form, legal process, legalism, legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, levelness, licitness, likeness, love, magistrate, meritedness, moderator, moral excellence, moral strength, morality, natural virtues, neutrality, nobility, objectiveness, objectivity, par, parallelism, parity, poise, principles, prison, probity, proportion, prudence, punishment, pureness, purity, rectitude, referee, reputability, respectability, right, righteousness, rightfulness, scope, stainlessness, supernatural virtues, symmetry, temperance, the courts, the law, theological virtues, umpire, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, uprightness, upstandingness, validity, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness

Etymology
justice from justise, justice (Modern  justice), from  iustitia 'righteousness, equity', from iustus "just", from ius 'right', from  ious, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from. Replaced native rightwished, rightwisnes "justice" (from  rihtwīsnes "justice, righteousness", compare  ġerihte "justice").

Antonyms

 * injustice

Derived terms

 * chief justice
 * commutative justice


 * distributive justice
 * do justice


 * justice of the peace
 * puisne justice

Related terms

 * just
 * justiciable


 * justiciar


 * unjust

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: ədalət
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ret, retfærdighed
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: δικαιοσύνη


 * Hungarian:, pártatlanság
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 公正,
 * Kurdish:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian: داد, عدل
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:, dreptate, justețe
 * Russian: справедливость
 * Scottish Gaelic: còir
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: adalet
 * Yiddish: גערעכטיקייט


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: ədalət
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,  公義,  公义,  公義
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: retfærdighed
 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: justiție
 * Russian: справедливость
 * Scottish Gaelic: còir
 * Slovene:
 * Turkish: adalet
 * Yiddish: גערעכטיקייט


 * Arabic:
 * Azeri: ədalət
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: gerechtigheid, recht, rechtsbedeling, berechting
 * French:


 * Polish:
 * Russian: справедливость
 * Scottish Gaelic: còir
 * Turkish: adalet


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:


 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: justiție
 * Russian:, юстиция
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: raadsheer (rough equivalent)
 * French: conseiller (rough equivalent)


 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: judecător
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Romanian: justețe


 * Russian: справедливость
 * Scottish Gaelic: còir

Noun

 * 1) justice

Derived terms

 * juste
 * justiticiable
 * justiticier

Etymology
From iustitia, from iustus "just", from ius "right"