INJUSTICE DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
injustice n 1: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness] 2: the practice of being unjust or unfair [syn: injustice, unjustness] [ant: justice, justness] Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary injustice (injustices) 1. Injustice is a lack of fairness in a situation. They'll continue to fight injustice... N-VAR 2. If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you. The article does them both an injustice. PHRASE: V inflects English Explanatory Dictionary injustice ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs n. 1 a lack of fairness or justice. 2 an unjust act. ødo a person an injustice judge a person unfairly. [ME f. OF f. L injustitia (as IN-(1), JUSTICE)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Injustice \In*jus"tice\, n. [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust.] 1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke. 2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. --Swift. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms injustice n. 1. Unfairness, unjust or inequitable nature or character. 2. Wrong, grievance, piece of injustice. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) injustice ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs n. 1 unfairness, favouritism, discrimination, bias, inequality, partiality, partisanship, prejudice, bigotry, one-sidedness, unjustness, inequity: Class privilege has always condoned injustice. 2 wrong, injury: You do me an injustice if you think me capable of dishonesty. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 124 Moby Thesaurus words for "injustice": abstractionism, asymmetry, atrocity, bias, bigotry, breach, coloring, contrariety, crime, crime against humanity, damage, deadly sin, deformation, delinquency, dereliction, difference, discrimination, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disservice, distortion, enormity, error, evil, exaggeration, expressionism, failure, false coloring, falsification, fault, favoritism, felony, garbling, genocide, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, harm, heavy sin, heterogeneity, hurt, hyperbole, imbalance, imposition, impropriety, inaccuracy, inadequacy, indiscretion, inequality, inequitableness, inequity, inexpiable sin, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, insufficiency, irregularity, lapse, litotes, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, miscarriage of justice, mischief, miscoloring, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdrawing, misfeasance, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mortal sin, nonfeasance, nonrealism, nonuniformity, odds, offense, omission, one-sidedness, outrage, overbalance, overdrawing, overstatement, partiality, partisanship, peccadillo, peccancy, perversion, prejudice, raw deal, ruin, shortcoming, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slanting, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, twisting, unbalance, understatement, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unfairness, unjustness, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing |
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