unjust

«unjust» in Mova's school dictionary: not fair or not right, especially when someone is treated… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (unjust; more unjust, most unjust)

meaning for a pupil

1) Unjust means not fair or not right, especially when someone is treated badly without a good reason. tree →

2) (law) An unjust law or punishment goes against fairness and people's rights. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in ethics lessons, history (unjust laws, slavery) and stories about wrongs being put right; phrases: «an unjust punishment», «unjust treatment», «it is unjust that…».

examples

• It was unjust to blame Mia for the broken window. tree →
• The whole class was kept in, which felt unjust. tree →
• People marched against the unjust law. tree →
• The story is about a king who was cruel and unjust. tree →
• Martin Luther King spoke out against unjust treatment. tree →
• Is it unjust to punish everyone for one person's mistake? tree →
• He was so unjust and cruel that he won for himself the name of tyrant. tree →

note

Opposite: just (fair). Noun: injustice (not «unjustice»). Adverb: unjustly. Stronger and more formal than «unfair».

In the corpora

• An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unjust» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.