virtuous
Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
Adjective
- Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
- Successful communities need strong, selfless leaders and a virtuous people.
- Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad. - 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and...
Origin
From Middle English vertuous, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertuous, vertous, ultimately from Late Latin virtuōsus, from Latin virtūs. By surface analysis, virtue + -ous. Doublet of virtuoso and piecewise doublet of virtùous.
Forms
Synonyms
chaste continent correct delicate decent decorous desertful deserving dutiful duteous good honest innocent meritorious modest moral noble right right-minded righteous straight uprighteous virtual virtuous
Antonyms
bad dishonest immodest immoral incontinent indecent obscene reprehensible risque shameless unchaste wicked
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
admirable exemplary excellent matchless peerless sterling creditable commendable laudable praiseworthy sanctimonious angelic devout godlike godly heaven-born pious religious reverent reverential saintly saint-like seraphic
Related
Derived
virtuous circle virtuous cycle virtuous spiral virtuous couch virtuousness pseudovirtuous