integrous

Having or characterized by integrity.

Adjective

  1. Having or characterized by integrity.
    • No doubt hard, no doubt proud, unpleasant in self-esteem, and singularly blind to much of what was going on, and yet such a high-minded and integrous woman, […] - 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The Life of Edward...
    • And Smiths of Policie shall invent, To cast new Molds of Government; While vulgar Birds, of weakest wing, Grow stout against the Eagle King, Whose just integrous heart shall prove The Adamant of Subjects love. - 1968,...
    • He concluded by writing that ‘Hillsong is the most integrous church in the country, and its leadership is above reproach’. - 2007, Tanya Levin, People in Glass Houses: An Insider’s Story of a Life in and Out of...

Origin

Integr- (the root of integr(ity)) + -ous (adjectival suffix: “full of, characterised by, possessing”).

Forms

more integrous most integrous