Judgment

Noun

 * 1) The act of judging.
 * 2) The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
 * 3) * Psalms 72:2 (King James Version).
 * He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
 * 1) * Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, I-i
 * Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
 * 1) The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
 * 2) * Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV-iv
 * She in my judgment was as fair as you.
 * 1)  The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
 * 2) * Jeremy Taylor.
 * In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.
 * 1) * Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, IV-i
 * Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
 * 1)  The final award; the last sentence.

Derived terms

 * arrest of judgment
 * judgment call
 * judgment day
 * judgment debt
 * judgment hall


 * judgment hour
 * judgment of God
 * judgment seat
 * judgment summons
 * judgment throne

Adjectives for Judgment
solid; impartial; casual; profound; unerring; veritable; astonishing; declamatory; primitive; clearest; unfavorable;  unimpeachable; scornful; verdant; aesthetic; historical; stern; intellectual; inappropriate; solemn; melodious; capricious; moral; subtle; snap; considered; artistic; sound; healthy; noble; fundamental; manifest; perverted; educated; critical; righteous; biased; discriminating; unflattering; jealous; ripe; tolerant; affectionate; cold; inflexible; popular; calm; awful; invaluable; depraved; unbiased; sober; silent; ready-made; disciplined; erroneous; imitative; military; discretionary; irritating; full-grown; burning; su¬perior; qualitative; withering; adverse; objective; masculine; exulting; poetic; shallow; strict; true; interested; brawling; temperate; kindly; false; settled; unstable; dispassionate; rash; presentative; tautological; individual; unmerciful; reformed; lame; tried; admirable; enlightened; harsh; synthetic; advanced; maturer; ablest; retributive; cooler; strong; simple.

Verbs for Judgment
confirm—; derange—; distort—; endorse— enfeeble—; exercise—; formulate—; impai —; impose—; impugn—; influence—; inter fere with—; modify—; obtain—against pass—; pervert—; pronounce—; render— reverse—; ripen—; stimulate—; suspend— temper—; venture—; voice—; waive— warp—; withhold—; —affirms; —coerces —impels.

Thesaurus
acquittal, acumen, anathematizing, appraisal, appraisement, assessment, assumption, astuteness, attitude, belief, castigation, censure, chastening, chastisement, circumspection, circumspectness, climate of opinion, common belief, common sense, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, condemnation, condign punishment, consensus gentium, consideration, conviction, cool judgment, correction, critical discernment, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, decision, deduction, denouncement, denunciation, deserts, determination, discernment, disciplinary measures, discipline, discreetness, discretion, discrimination, doom, estimate, estimation, ethos, evaluation, excommunication, eye, feeling, ferule, flair, general belief, good judgment, good sense, guilty verdict, gumption, horse sense, idea, illation, impression, infliction, insight, judicatory, judicature, judicial process, judicial punishment, judiciary, judiciousness, justice, landmark decision, lights, mind, mystique, nemesis, new, notion, observation, opinion, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penetration, penology, perception, perceptiveness, personal judgment, perspicacity, persuasion, point of view, policy, polity, popular belief, position, posture, presumption, prevailing belief, proscription, providence, prudence, prudentialism, public belief, public opinion, punishment, punition, rap, ratiocination, reaction, reflection, reflectiveness, retribution, retributive justice, ruling, sagacity, scourge, sentence, sentiment, sequitur, shrewdness, sight, sound judgment, soundness of judgment, stance, stock, the courts, theory, thinking, thought, thoughtfulness, verdict, verdict of guilty, view, way of thinking, weighing, well-deserved punishment, what-for, wisdom

Alternative forms

 * judgement

Etymology
From jugement:.

Translations

 * Ewe:
 * Greek:
 * Polish: osądzanie


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Greek:
 * Polish: rozsądek, rozeznanie, wyczucie


 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili:


 * Greek:
 * Polish: osąd, sąd


 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili:


 * Estonian: lahend
 * Greek: ,


 * Polish: posŧępowanie, proces
 * Swahili:


 * Greek:
 * Portuguese:


 * Swahili:


 * Czech: úsudek (non-legal), rozsudek
 * Scots: juidgement