just so

phrase

1

: in a particular way

They feel they have to dress just so to be popular.

2

: arranged in a very neat and tidy way

Everything in her house has to be just so or she gets upset.

Examples of just so in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Val’s introduction come by way of a carjacking that sees Sugar’s baby blue 1966 Chevrolet Corvette stolen and then quickly and conveniently retrieved by Val, who just so happens to be standing nearby when the theft happened. — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026

Original brick walls and soaring warehouse windows meet contemporary metal fixtures that just so happen to be trendy, but are not entirely devoid of the past. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2026

Naturally, Ted wants to figure out the turd of a locker room sitch (Tanya Reynolds’ disgusted face is just so wonderful) before asking Alice to do the presser with him. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

This has no relevance to anything, but Malcolm’s hand-wringing about the cat’s mental health is just so revealing there. — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 11 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for just so

• acknow
• aglow
• ago
• airglow
• aloe
• altho
• although
• ammo
• backflow
• backhoe
• banjo
• barbeau