JUST SO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does just so mean? 

• JUST SO (adverb)
  The adverb JUST SO has 1 sense:

1. in a careful manner

  Familiarity information: JUST SO used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUST SO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a careful manner

Context example:

you must treat this plant just so

 Context examples 

Just so, returned Mrs. Micawber, It is precisely that.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The books on her father's shelves, the paintings on the walls, the music on the piano—all was just so much meretricious display.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes; just so, in your circumstances: but find me another precisely placed as you are.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yes, Harriet, just so long have I been wanting the very circumstance to happen that has happened.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This is your time to get things just so, and you will gain the support from others that you may have felt was sorely missing in your life over the past two years.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Very likely it just so happened, and Oldacre had himself no notion of the use he would put it to.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s just so much slush and sentiment, and you must see it yourself, at least for one who does not believe in eternal life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"When we first discovered it, it was like, 'Wow! There's just so much we don't know yet. And wouldn't that be really cool if it really works,'" Jacobs said.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

The kindness, the earnestness of Eleanor's manner in pressing her to stay, and Henry's gratified look on being told that her stay was determined, were such sweet proofs of her importance with them, as left her only just so much solicitude as the human mind can never do comfortably without.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Just so.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)