due
/djuː/ adjective, adverb, noun, proper noun
Forms dues
- adjective Owed or owing. “He is due four weeks of back pay.”
- adjective Appropriate. “With all due respect, you're wrong about that.”
- adjective Scheduled; expected. “Rain is due this afternoon.”
- adjective Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time. “The baby is just about due.”
- adjective Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. “The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.”
- adjective On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass. “The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.”
- adverb (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly. “The river runs due north for about a mile.”
- noun Deserved acknowledgment. “Give him his due – he is a good actor.”
- noun (in the plural) A membership fee.
- noun That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
- noun Right; just title or claim.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
needed owing to be made required expected forecast credit ascribable imputable referable
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
- adjective Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit. Her obedience, which is due to me. Shak.
- adverb Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
- noun That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.
Etymology [OF. deu, F. dû, p. p. of devoir to owe, fr. L. debere. See Debt, Habit, and cf. Duty.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “due”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details