Meanings
- idiomaticApproximately, very nearly.
I’m (just) about ready.
2 more examples
‘Have you already reached your sales target?’ ‘Just about.’
Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLCSynonyms: -ish, about, all but, almost, approaching, around, by and large, circa
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbApproximately, very nearly.
More synonyms by meaning
adverb(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch zowat
- zowatapproximately
Finnish jokseenkin, jotakuinkin
- jokseenkinapproximately
- jotakuinkinapproximately
- kutakuinkinapproximately
- noinapproximately
- kohtaapproximately
- pianapproximately
Polish ledwie, prawie
- ledwieapproximately
- prawieapproximately
Portuguese aproximadamente
- aproximadamenteapproximately
Spanish casi, por poco
- casiapproximately
- por pocoapproximately
- mal que bienapproximately
Cite this entry
just about. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/just%20about
“just about.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/just%20about. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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