What does "judgment" mean?
The act of judging.
Judgment
/ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The act of judging.
- Grammar: judgment is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: discernment, acquittal, acumen, adjudging.
- Useful contrasts: foolishness, guess, mercy.
- Usage evidence: And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of judging. countable, uncountable
"The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times."
- 2 the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event wordnet
- 3 The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely. countable, uncountable
"a man of judgment / a man of good judgment"
- 4 (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it wordnet
- 5 The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. countable, uncountable
"She in my judgment was as fair as you."
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- 6 the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions wordnet
- 7 The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge. countable, uncountable
"In judgments between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be considered what the poor man needs, but what is his own"
- 8 the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations wordnet
- 9 The final award; the last sentence. countable, uncountable
- 10 the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions wordnet
- 11 an opinion formed by judging something wordnet
- 12 the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision wordnet
Antonyms
Example
"And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "judgment"?
Common synonyms include: discernment, acquittal, acumen, adjudging, adjudication, anathematizing.
How do you use "judgment" in a sentence?
And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
How do you pronounce "judgment"?
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/.
Etymology
From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Partially displaced doom. By surface analysis, judge + -ment.