Word.ws English Dictionary

done justice

done justice is the past participle of do justice.

Meaning of do justice

Verb

do justice (third-person singular simple present does justice, present participle doing justice, simple past did justice, past participle done justice)

  1. (idiomatic) To allow to be apprehended in its full scope.
    • It was classified as "all others" under vehicle type […], but that category doesn't do a motorized barstool justice.2009 March 30, “Newark police cite man for driving drunk after crashing motorized barstool”, in The Advocate, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013
  2. (idiomatic) To enjoy to the full.
    • […] a magnificent cold supper was awaiting him in the dining-room, where he did full justice to a game pie and a bottle of claret.1935, Russell Thorndike, The Scarecrow Rides

Questions about done justice

What is done justice the past participle of?
Done justice is the past participle of do justice.

Words near done justice in the dictionary

  1. done in
  2. done it
  3. done it brown
  4. done it tough
  5. done it up brown
  6. done justice
  7. done like a dinner
  8. done lunch
  9. done more harm than good
  10. done nothing
  11. done numbers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: done justice (page history and authors); do justice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “done justice.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/done_justice. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.