Meanings
- not comparableBy right; in accordance with or as deemed by the statute of the law, particularly as opposed to actual practice.
Near-synonym: technically
1 more example
I used to spend my Sundays playing pinball despite it being de jure illegal under an unenforced bylaw.
Synonyms: legally, legalistically, technically
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbBy right; in accordance with or as deemed by the statute of the law, particularly as opposed to actual practice.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveby right; according to law
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latindē jūre
- Englishde jure
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dē jūre (literally “according to law”).
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Catalan de iure
- de iureby right
Chinese Mandarin 法理上
- 法理上by right
Danish de jure
- de jureTranslations
Dutch de jure, de jure
- de jureTranslations
- de jureby right
Finnish de jure, lain mukaan
- de jureby right
- lain mukaanby right
- laillisestiby right
French de jure, de droit
- de jureby right
- de droitby right
German de jure
- de jureby right
Greek εκ του νόμου, ντε γιούρε
- εκ του νόμου (ek tou nómou)by right
- ντε γιούρε (nte gioúre)by right
- αυτοδικαίως (aftodikaíos)by right
Hindi विधिनुसार
- विधिनुसार (vidhinusār)by right
Japanese デ・ジュリ, 法律上の
- デ・ジュリ (de-juri)by right
- 法律上の (hōritsujō no)by right
Polish wedle prawa, de iure
- wedle prawaby right
- de iureby right
Portuguese de jure
- de jureby right
Russian де-ю́ре, юриди́ческий
- де-ю́ре (dɛ-júrɛ)by right
- юриди́ческий (juridíčeskij)by right
- по пра́ву (po právu)by right
Spanish de iure, de jure (de iure)
- de iureTranslations
- de jure (de iure)Translations
Swedish de jure
- de jureby right
Turkish dejure, hükmen
- dejureby right
- hükmenby right
Cite this entry
de jure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/de%20jure
“de jure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/de%20jure. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “de jure,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/de%20jure.
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