just so UK /ˌd͡ʒʌst ˈsəʊ/US /ˌd͡ʒʌst ˈsoʊ/ adverb3 •In the precise manner indicated.If you don’t turn the knob just so, the door won’t open. •very neatly and tidily.“Everything has to be just so,” he [Lonnie Rose] said. “Being in a concrete box for a long time makes you even more O.C.D.” — 2015 •To the same extent.Poor in quality are these classes [of poetry], just so rich in the number of songs and melodies are the other groups which constitute the wedding-songs proper. — 1929