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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
Birch Bayh

Meaning of "injustice" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INJUSTICE

injustice  [ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INJUSTICE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Injustice is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INJUSTICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

injustice

Injustice

Injustice is a quality relating to unfairness or undeserved outcomes. The term may be applied in reference to a particular event or situation, or to a larger status quo. In Western philosophy and jurisprudence, injustice is very commonly, but not always, defined as either the absence or the opposite of justice. The sense of injustice is a universal human feature, though the exact circumstances considered unjust can vary from culture to culture. While even acts of nature can sometimes arouse the sense of injustice, the sense is usually felt in relation to human action such as misuse, abuse, neglect, or malfeasance that is uncorrected or else sanctioned by a legal system or fellow human beings. The sense of injustice can be a powerful motivational condition, causing people to take action not just to defend themselves but also others who they perceive to be unfairly treated.

Definition of injustice in the English dictionary

The definition of injustice in the dictionary is the condition or practice of being unjust or unfair. Other definition of injustice is an unjust act.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INJUSTICE


Alcestis
ælˈsɛstɪs
armistice
ˈɑːmɪstɪs
cactoblastis
ˌkæktəʊˈblɑːstɪs
hostess
ˈhəʊstɪs
hydrastis
haɪˈdræstɪs
interstice
ɪnˈtɜːstɪs
justice
ˈdʒʌstɪs
ovotestis
ˌəʊvəʊˈtɛstɪs
pastis
pæˈstɪs
pneumocystis
ˌnjuːməʊˈsɪstɪs
sarcocystis
ˌsɑːkəʊˈsɪstɪs
solstice
ˈsɒlstɪs
testis
ˈtɛstɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INJUSTICE

injunct
injunction
injunctive
injunctively
injurable
injure
injured
injured party
injurer
injuries
injurious
injuriously
injuriousness
injury
injury benefit
injury list
injury time
injury-prone
ink
ink bag

WORDS THAT END LIKE INJUSTICE

bring to justice
chief justice
College of Justice
court of justice
do oneself justice
European Court of Justice
High Court of Justice
International Court of Justice
Lord Chief Justice
miscarriage of justice
natural justice
notice
obstruction of justice
poetic justice
practice
restorative justice
rough justice
street justice
summer solstice
winter solstice

Synonyms and antonyms of injustice in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INJUSTICE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «injustice» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of injustice

Translation of «injustice» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INJUSTICE

Find out the translation of injustice to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of injustice from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «injustice» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不公平
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

injusticia
570 millions of speakers

English

injustice
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अन्याय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ظُلْمٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несправедливость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

injustiça
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবিচার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

injustice
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidakadilan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ungerechtigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不公平
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora adil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự bất công
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அநீதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अन्याय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

adaletsizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingiustizia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niesprawiedliwość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

несправедливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nedreptate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αδικία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onreg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

orättvisa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

urettferdighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of injustice

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INJUSTICE»

The term «injustice» is very widely used and occupies the 19.369 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INJUSTICE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «injustice» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «injustice» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about injustice

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10 QUOTES WITH «INJUSTICE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word injustice.
1
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
2
Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
3
Birch Bayh
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
4
John Berger
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
5
Carl Bernstein
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
6
William Blum
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
7
Lakhdar Brahimi
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
8
Breyten Breytenbach
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
9
Joseph Butler
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
10
Amy Carter
Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INJUSTICE»

Discover the use of injustice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to injustice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice ...
"Not so in the Obama Justice Department," says whistleblower and former DOJ lawyer J. Christian Adams in his shocking new expose, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department.
J. Adams, 2011
2
Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists
Danny Dorling claims in this timely book that in rich countries inequality is now caused by unacknowledged beliefs which propagate it.
Daniel Dorling, 2011
3
Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America
Shortlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. THE STORY CONTINUES: TWO NEW CHAPTERS FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION In 1986, Kris Maharaj, a British businessman living in Miami, was arrested for the brutal murder of two ex-business associates.
Clive Stafford Smith, 2012
4
Fighting Injustice
In this book the author describes the battles--both inside and outside the courtroom--that have made him one of the world's most courageous defenders of personal freedoms.
Michael E. Tigar, 2002
5
Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
Raymond Bonner, 2012
6
Everyday Injustice: Latino Professionals and Racism
The book examines racial framing in America, the role of language and culture among Latino professionals, the role of Latinos in the workplace, their level of civic participation, and the important role that education plays in improving ...
Maria Chávez, 2011
7
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court
Here is the public defender who pleads most of his clients guilty with scant knowledge about their circumstances; the judge who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes; the prosecutor who habitually declines to pursue significant cases; ...
Amy Bach, 2010
8
Social Injustice and Public Health
Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book, on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems.
Barry S. Levy M.D. Adjunct Professor of Community Health Tufts University School of Medicine, Victor W. Sidel M.D. Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2005
9
Enduring Injustice
Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.
Jeff Spinner-Halev, 2012
10
Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen
A thoughtful and lucid distillation of Dr. Hilfiker's personal experience working as a medical doctor in urban centres for the last twenty years, together with his readings in academic and popular writing on the subject of poverty and ...
David Hilfiker, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INJUSTICE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term injustice is used in the context of the following news items.
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African Injustice: A land soiled by colonialism that only time can …
Injustice, however, was the fertilising seed which helped this process of extraction run smoothly. Throughout this period, the local populations ... «Shout Out UK, Jul 15»
2
'An injustice system': Obama's prison tour latest in late-term reform …
Barack Obama speaks as he tours the El Reno federal correctional institution in Oklahoma. He is the first sitting president to visit a federal ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Uncorrectable injustice
Pangs of conscience led him to ask – almost demand - to correct the injustice he felt was done to Hirsch. As he sees it, Hirsch has suffered ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
4
Obama Highlights Racial Injustice Faced by American Indians
Obama Highlights Racial Injustice Faced by American Indians. Jul 16, 2015 4:20 PM PDT. The president has often focussed on the need to "do better by our first ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
5
Prime minister: repair the injustice of Britain's Maangamizi!
European and American civil society organisations representing people of African descent call on Britain to take full responsibility for its ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
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Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four #11 Review
Injustice: Gods Among Us upped the ante a bit when it got into the fight with Superman and Wonder Woman, which worked out well for a good if ... «The Fandom Post, Jul 15»
7
Cultural injustice, material inequality – Yap Lay Sheng - The …
Cultural injustice, material inequality – Yap Lay Sheng. Published: 16 July 2015 3:10 PM. In the aftermath of the Low Yat fracas, there have been many ... «The Malaysian Insider, Jul 15»
8
ISU student joins fight against poverty, hunger, social injustice | Dct …
Gehrke said the Oxfam program focuses on social injustices and empowering groups of people who have been victims of social injustice. «Iowa State Daily, Jul 15»
9
Obama calls nation's criminal justice system 'an injustice system'
"Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye to hopelessness and despair, that's not a justice system, that's an injustice system," Obama said. «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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NAACP chief wants members to tackle injustice with renewed …
In a few weeks the NAACP will lead an 860-mile march from Selma, Ala. to Washington to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Voting ... «Philadelphia Sun Times, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Injustice [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/injustice>. May 2024 ».
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