unjust

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ just.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʌnˈdʒʌst/

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• Rhymes: -ʌst

Adjective

unjust (comparative more unjust, superlative most unjust)

1. Not fair, just or right.

   The solution was very unjust.

Synonyms

• unfair

Antonyms

• just

Related terms

• justice
• injustice

Usage notes

Beware that unjust and injustice use different prefixes (French injustice was borrowed into English, but injuste was not). injust is archaic and unjustice is obsolete.

Translations

not fair, just or right

• Arabic: ظالم (ʐálim)
• Armenian: անարդար (hy) (anardar)
• Asturian: inxustu (ast)
• Catalan: injust (ca)
• Chinese: 不公正 (bù gōngzhèng)
• Czech: nespravedlivý (cs)
• Dutch: onrechtvaardig (nl)
• Finnish: epäoikeudenmukainen (fi)
• French: injuste (fr)
• Galician: inxusto (gl)
• German: ungerecht (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄδικος (adikos)

• Hungarian: nem tisztességes
• Icelandic: ranglátur (is)
• Italian: ingiusto (it)
• Japanese: 不正な (ふせいな, fusei na)
• Korean: 옳지 않은 (olchi aneun)
• Macedonian: неправеден (mk) (nepráveden)
• Persian: ظالم (fa)
• Polish: niesprawiedliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: injusto (pt)
• Russian: несправедливый (ru) (nespravedlívyj)
• Spanish: injusto (es)
• Swedish: orättvis (sv)