judgment
//ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt//
Forms
- Plural
- judgments
Definitions
1.The act of judging.
- The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times.
2.The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
3.The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
- She in my judgment was as fair as you.
4.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.
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2134
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.