due

Meaning

Adj

1. Owed or owing.
2. Appropriate.
3. Scheduled; expected.
4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.

Adv

Directly; exactly.

Noun

1. Deserved acknowledgment.
2. (in-plural) A membership fee.
3. 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.
4. Right; just title or claim.

Synonyms

proper

appropriate

right

fee

owing

ascribable

adequate

just

mature

expected

reasonable

toll

charge

suitable

owed

directly

duty

attributable

fitting

useful

tax

straight

debt

premium

applicable

unpaid

becoming

referable

payable

of use

payment

💸

lawful

exactly

equitable

apt

legal

advantageous

expedient

imputable

justifiable

legitimate

scheduled

direct

deserve

derive

depend

cess

delinquent

decent

forthrightly

Translations

fällig

schuldig

gehörig

dû

convenable

dovuto

conveniente

due

debido

αρμόδιος

gebührend

scaduto

exatamente

debito

Pronounced as (IPA)

/djuː/

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”).

Sentences

It was due to be released as a single , but this never happened .

I have three essays due in the next week .

Class was dismissed due to a freak incident caused by a chemical spill .

This may be due to the preponderance of closet-index funds in the study .