The Collaborative International Dictionary
Just \Just\, adv.
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Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
And having just enough, not covet more.
--Dryden.The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.
--Sir P. Sidney.To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.
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Closely; nearly; almost.
Just at the point of death.
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Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.
A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail.
--Dryden.Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context set phrase English) Very close to the present moment, just a moment ago. 2 (context Scotland South Africa English) In a little while. Shortly.
WordNet
adv. only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now came out" [syn: just]
Usage examples of "just now".
That's a big story in Turai just now, though they tried to keep it quiet.
I was going to your friend just now--was but A few steps from the house, when I saw him Go out.
To be sure, if your ladyship had but seen him just now, you must have pitied him.
Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teazing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?
For on the lips you press you kiss as well The words I spoke just now!
The few words I just now heard you utter seem to promise me the bliss to which I aspire.
Thereafter the Marshal summoned all them that were due thereto to come and give homage to the new king, and even so did they, though he were but a babe, yea, and who had but just now been a king lying in his mother's womb.
I said just now that several things had happened in the first half-hour of Benvolio's first visit.
This, sirs, was the reason of words and expressions I made use of to this goat when I came up just now.