Definition of due

"due" in the noun sense

1. due

that which is deserved or owed

"give the devil his due"

2. due

a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership

"the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"

"due" in the adjective sense

1. due

owed and payable immediately or on demand

"payment is due"

2. due

scheduled to arrive

"the train is due in 15 minutes"

3. due

suitable to or expected in the circumstances

"all due respect"

"due cause to honor them"

"a long due promotion"

"in due course"

"due esteem"

"exercising due care"

4. ascribable, due, imputable, referable

capable of being assigned or credited to

"punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"

"the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"

"the oversight was not imputable to him"

"due" in the adverb sense

1. due

directly or exactly straight

"went due North"

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Quotations for due

To every man his due. [ Motto ]

Give the devil his due. [ Dryden ]

Mysteries are due to secrecy. [ Bacon ]

Tears are due to human misery. [ Virgil ]

He will give the devil his due. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who loses his due gets no thanks. [ Proverb ]

The due of honor in no point omit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make due allowance for exaggeration. [ H. Stephens ]

Deathless laurel is the victor's due. [ Dryden ]

Posterity will pay every one his due. [ Tac ]

He that loseth his due gets not thanks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due.
Dust claims dust - and we die too. [ Shelley ]

Is no return due from a grateful breast? [ Dryden ]

Restore to God His due in tithe and time. [ George Herbert ]

What I have done is due to patient thought. [ Sir Isaac Newton ]

Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. [ John Philips ]

Wise is the man prepared for either end,
Who in due measure can both spare and spend. [ Lucian ]

A word spoken in due season, how good is it? [ Bible ]

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

There is little due to pleasure, but much to health. [ Proverb ]

Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. [ Proverb ]

To give to every man his due, that is supreme justice. [ Cicero ]

Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. [ Ovid ]

Patience - with patience everything comes in due season. [ Laboulaye ]

Tears are due to misfortune, and mortal woes touch the heart. [ Virgil ]

Inconstancy is sometimes due to levity of mind, but oftener to satiety. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. [ Rivarol ]

Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. [ Cicero ]

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. [ Horace Mann ]

There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. [ Tacitus ]

Some men have a Sunday soul, which they screw on in due time, and take off again every Monday morning. [ Kobert Hall ]

It is difficult for one who has enjoyed uninterrupted good fortune to have a due reverence for virtue. [ Cicero ]

There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them. [ Locke ]

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. [ Bacon ]

The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. [ Virgil ]

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension. [ Plutarch ]

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. [ Charles Buxton ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. [ Boyle ]

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life. [ Beecher ]

Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. [ Bacon ]

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. [ Colton ]

No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due inquiry into the cause of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it. [ South ]

A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]

I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself. [ Dr. Arnold ]

The secret of happiness lies in the health of the whole mind, and in giving to each faculty due occupation, and in the natural order of their superiorities, the Divine first, the human second, the material last. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. [ La Bruyere ]

The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. [ Carlyle ]

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]

After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations. It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

due in Scrabble®

The word due is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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due in Words With Friends™

The word due is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Longer words containing due

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dues fondues

dues residues

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