Definition of Just so

1. Adverb. In a careful manner. "You must treat this plant just so"

Definition of Just so

1. Adverb. In the precise manner indicated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Just So

just another pretty face
just as
just as well
just compensation
just compensations
just deserts
just desserts
just ducky
just in case
just in time
just kidding
just like that
just now
just right
just shoot me
just so (current term)
just the same
just the ticket
just then
just what the doctor ordered
just wondering
justed
juster
justers
justest
justice
justice of the peace
justiceable
justiceless
justicement

Literary usage of Just so

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"just so. And rightly. Then neither the existent nor the non-existent is the object of opinion ? No. Therefore opinion cannot be either ignorance or ..."

2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"just so helpless did I feel, disarmed into just the same languishing impotence to face (or make an effort at facing) the difficulty before me, ..."

3. The Works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., First Pastor of the Church in Bethlem, Conn. by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1853)
"just so far as we are disposed to think the law too severe, just so far are we disposed to justify ourselves and condemn God; and just so far are we ..."

4. The Bookman (1906)
"It is only conversation that is written "just so" that makes you forget you are ... A story, to be written just so, depends upon something more vital than a ..."

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