justice

Other forms of justice

plural

justices·

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.

Questions about justice

What does justice mean?

justice means "the quality of being just or fair". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in justice?

justice has 2 syllables: jus-tice. The stress falls on "jus". In IPA it is /ˈdʒʌstəs/.

What is another word for justice?

Close synonyms include justness, judge, jurist, Department of Justice, Justice Department. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of justice?

The recorded antonyms are injustice.

Is justice a common word?

justice is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.