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Definition: Just So |
Just SoAdverb1. In a careful manner; "you must treat this plant just so". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Just SoSynonym: with great care (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | Adverb: yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said", you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes, ex concesso; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch. |
Truth | Exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so; strict, severe; close; (similar); literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous; (conscientious); religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's just so confident, it can't be real. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I'm just so excited to be here. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) Because he, well, he's just so good looking (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) But I decided checks are just so impersonal so happy birthday, Richard. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) I'm just so happy to be home, that's all. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Lyrics | You can get just so much from a good thing (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) You got a kind of walk that's just so fine (Precious Love; performing artist: Bob Welch; writing credit: Bob Welch) That is just so typically me (Oops!... I Did It Again; performing artist: Britney Spears) Just so you could cash in (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA) Touch your lips just so I know (Crash Into Me; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It Just So Happens (1980) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles M. Schultz | The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Yes, Harriet, just so long have I been wanting the very circumstance to happen what has happened. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | It is just so. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Just the knowledge that I've goofed again or I said something wrong or I feel like I did something wrong or that I didn't know what I was saying or I forgot--all of these things are just so doggone common. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For me the pinnacle of selfishness is the driver who takes up two prime parking spaces in a crowded parking lot just so they won't get a little door ding. |
Donald Rumsfeld | There's just so many people in that part of the world who would like to shove Israel into the sea and not have it be there. And until people are willing to accept the presence of Israel, Israel, obviously, is not going to be able to make a deal. |
Rush Limbaugh | Daschle is denying you farmers and ranchers disaster relief just like he's denying you seasoned citizens a prescription drug bill just so he can blame Bush for it. |
Samantha Geimer | I mean, I just felt forced to continually tell this story. I was just so angry about it. It was like wasn't what happened bad enough, now we've got to go through it every single day of my life. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
just so story | 17 |
called card her just so t up | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "just so"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pikërisht kështu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بالضبط (exactly, nicely, precisely, properly, punctually). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | правилно (aright, correctly, exactly, hear! hear, justly, okay, properly, regularly, right, rightly, that's right, true, true enough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 正好 (by chance, it just so happens that, just, just enough, just right, to chance to, to happen to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jen tak (just because, just like that). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pontosan így. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | proprio così (exactly), esattamente (carefully, correctly, exactly, just, nicely, Plumb, precisely, quite, quite so, right, sharp, Square, true). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustjay osay exatamente (close, cool, due, even, exactly, just, okay, plumb, right, sharp). (various references) just (accurate, correct, equitable, even, exact, fair, fairly, just, justly, reasonable, right, righteous, rightful, Square, suitable, that's the thing, truly, uprightly), exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, correct, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, narrow, perfect, precise, precisely, proper, punctual, punctually, regular, right, rigorous, scholarly, sharp, slick, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it). (various references) точно так. (various references) seadh (it is so, meaning, sense, understanding, yes). (various references) upravo tako (just like that). (various references) sólo de este modo, sólo de esta manera, sólo así, precisamente así. (various references) เป็นระเบียบ (taut). (various references) tam böyle, tabii ki (of course). (various references) keяpine (simply so). (various references) цілком вірно (quite right, quite so), точно так (precisely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | item, secus, secus, non secus, haud secus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: jousts. | |
| Words within the letters "j-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: joust, justs, ousts. | |
-2 letters: joss, jots, just, juts, oust, outs, sots, sous, toss. | |
-3 letters: jot, jus, jut, out, sos, sot, sou, uts. | |
-4 letters: jo, os, so, to, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "j-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: jousters, judoists. | |
+3 letters: adjustors, pulsojets. | |
+4 letters: juxtaposes. | |
+5 letters: journalists, nonsubjects, subjections, subjugators, subprojects, surjections. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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