Definitions for judgment
ˈdʒʌdʒ məntjudg·ment

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. judgment, judgement, mind(noun)

   an opinion formed by judging something

   "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"

2. judgment, judgement, assessment(noun)

   the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

   "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"

3. judgment, judgement, judicial decision(noun)

   (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it

4. judgment, judgement, judging(noun)

   the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

5. opinion, legal opinion, judgment, judgement(noun)

   the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

   "opinions are usually written by a single judge"

6. judgment, judgement, sound judgment, sound judgement, perspicacity(noun)

   the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

7. sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment(noun)

   the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

Wiktionary(1.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. judgment(Noun)

   The act of judging.

2. judgment(Noun)

   The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.

3. judgment(Noun)

   The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.

4. judgment(Noun)

   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.

5. judgment(Noun)

   The final award; the last sentence.

Origin: From jugement.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Judgment(verb)

   the act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence

2. Judgment(verb)

   the power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment

3. Judgment(verb)

   the conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision

4. Judgment(verb)

   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; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all

5. Judgment(verb)

   that act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical

6. Judgment(verb)

   that power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2

7. Judgment(verb)

   a calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment

8. Judgment(verb)

   the final award; the last sentence

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Judgment

   A judgment, in a legal context, is synonymous with the formal decision made by a court following a lawsuit. At the same time the court may also make a range of court orders, such as imposing a sentence upon a guilty defendant in a criminal matter, or providing a remedy for the plaintiff in a civil matter. In the United States, under the rules of civil procedure governing practice in federal courts and most state courts, the entry of judgment is the final order entered by the court in the case, leaving no further action to be taken by the court with respect to the issues contested by the parties to the lawsuit. With certain exceptions, only a final judgment is subject to appeal. In some legal systems, a judgment is not considered final until after appeals have been exhausted or waived.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Judgment

   The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person to make judgments; the process of bringing to light and asserting the implicit meaning of a concept; a critical evaluation of a person or situation.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. judgment

   In prize matters, the sentences of foreign courts, even though such decisions be manifestly unjust, are conclusive in ours by comity. The tribunals of France are not so complacent.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'judgment' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3029

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'judgment' in Nouns Frequency: #1153

How to pronounce judgment?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of judgment in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of judgment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of judgment in a Sentence

1. Assistant State Attorney Anthony Dafonseca:

   His judgment was pretty poor.

2. Joe Biden:

   I'm not going to make that judgment.

3. Tom Brandt:

   It was an accident and poor judgment.

4. Roy Ngerng:

   I'm not here to dispute the judgment.

5. Jonathan Goins:

   I believe there was a rush to judgment.

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