Dictionary

mot juste en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /məʊˈʒuːst/ (UK)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French mot juste.

Meanings

1. The perfectly appropriate word or phrase for the situation.
   • Wattpad is not the sort of site where writers talk about suffering for their art or spend hours searching for the mot juste. 2014 March 23, David Streitfeld, “Web Fiction, Serialized and Social”, in New York Times:
   • She legged it, and for a moment silence reigned. Then Bobbie said, “Phew!” and I agreed that “Phew!” was the mot juste. 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:

Forms

Synonyms

winged word

Translations (5)

de richtiger / passender / zutreffender Ausdruck (perfectly appropriate word or phrase) · de richtiges / passendes / treffendes Wort (perfectly appropriate word or phrase) · cmn 最貼切的字眼 /最贴切的字眼 (perfectly appropriate word or phrase) · fr mot juste (perfectly appropriate word or phrase) · fi osuva ilmaus (perfectly appropriate word or phrase)