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say it: JUHJ-muhnt
judgment is a noun meaning "an opinion formed by judging something". It is pronounced /ˈdʒʌdʒmənt/ — JUHJ-muhnt. It carries 7 recorded senses.
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
“they criticized my judgment of the contestants”
(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
law
the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
“opinions are usually written by a single judge”
law
the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for judgment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.