Meaning of just as well | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used to say that an occurrence, or situation, is not only fortunate, but that on the contrary, it could have been a lot worse; or that something that might at first seem bad is actually good because it could have been worse.
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2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see just, as well, as, well.
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Examples

“It's just as well you missed the train: it ended up crashing.”

“Nothing is produced at Sellafield any more. Which was just as well, because I’d gone to Sellafield not to observe how it lived but to understand how it is preparing for its end.”

“2007, Nov 30, Tomas Alex Tizon, in The LA Times, America's taxi capital: Bethel, Alaska. There are 16 female cabdrivers in town, most of them Koreans with limited English skills. Which is just as well, says Alla Tinker, because they don't want to understand much of what their male customers say.”

“Marshall stepped away from the conversation, and it was just as well. It could only have gotten hotter from that point”

“Brilliant mind, thought Geller. Absolutely brilliant. It's probably just as well. Imagine a countenance like that without a mind to offset it.”

“A paper cup will do (us) just as well.”

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