Synonyms for virtue
ˈvɜr tʃuvirtue

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1. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

2. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

3. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

4. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

5. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

6. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

7. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

8. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

9. virtuenoun

   Antonyms:
   foible

10. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    vice

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. virtue

   Virtue (Latin virtus, primarily manly strength or courage, from vir, a man, a hero) is, in its full sense, goodness that is victorious through trial, perhaps through temptation and conflict. Goodness, the being morally good, may be much less than virtue, as lacking the strength that comes from trial and conflict, or it may be very much more than virtue, as rising sublimely above the possibility of temptation and conflict — the infantile as contrasted with the divine goodness. Virtue is distinctively human; we do not predicate it of God. Morality is conformity to the moral law in action, whether in matters concerning ourselves or others, whether with or without right principle. Honesty and probity are used especially of one's relations to his fellow men, probity being to honesty much what virtue in some respects is to goodness; probity is honesty tried and proved, especially in those things that are beyond the reach of legal requirement; above the commercial sense, honesty may be applied to the highest truthfulness of the soul to and with itself and its Maker. Integrity, in the full sense, is moral wholeness without a flaw; when used, as it often is, of contracts and dealings, it has reference to inherent character and principle, and denotes much more than superficial or conventional honesty. Honor is a lofty honesty that scorns fraud or wrong as base and unworthy of itself. Honor rises far above thought of the motto that "honesty is the best policy." Purity is freedom from all admixture, especially of that which debases; it is chastity both of heart and life, but of the life because from the heart. Duty, the rendering of what is due to any person or in any relation, is, in this connection, the fulfilment of moral obligation. Rectitude and righteousness denote conformity to the standard of right, whether in heart or act; righteousness is used especially in the religious sense. Uprightness refers especially to conduct. Virtuousness is a quality of the soul or of action; in the latter sense it is the essence of virtuous action. Compare INNOCENT; JUSTICE; RELIGION.

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   Synonyms:
   chastity, duty, excellence, faithfulness, goodness, honesty, honor, integrity, justice, morality, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, truth, uprightness, virtuousness, worth, worthiness

   Antonyms:
   evil, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. virtue

   Synonyms:
   power, capacity, strength, force, efficacy, excellence, value, morality, goodness, uprightness, purity, chastity, salubrity

   Antonyms:
   weakness, incapacity, inability, inefficacy, badness, corruption, vice, immorality, impurity, unchastity, virulence, malignancy

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1. virtue, virtuousness, moral excellencenoun

   the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

   Synonyms:
   chastity, virtuousness, merit, sexual morality, moral excellence

2. merit, virtuenoun

   any admirable quality or attribute

   "work of great merit"

   Synonyms:
   deservingness, meritoriousness, chastity, sexual morality, merit, moral excellence, virtuousness

3. virtue, chastity, sexual moralitynoun

   morality with respect to sexual relations

   Synonyms:
   sexual morality, sexual abstention, moral excellence, chastity, celibacy, merit, virtuousness

4. virtuenoun

   a particular moral excellence

   Synonyms:
   chastity, virtuousness, merit, sexual morality, moral excellence

Matched Categories

1. • Good
   • Worth

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1. virtuenoun

   Synonyms:
   force, efficacy, power, strength, potency

2. virtuenoun

   Synonyms:
   goodness (that comes from self discipline), uprightness, probity, integrity, rectitude, morality, worth, moral excellence

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1. virtuenoun

   Synonyms:
   excellence, worth, goodness, purity, morality, integrity

   Associated words:
   aretology, aretaics

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1. List of paraphrases for "virtue":

   accordance, pursuance, righteousness, conformity, merit, basis, reason, pursuant

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1. Venezuelan Proverb:

   Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

2. Patrick Henry:

   Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

3. Marcus Valerius Martialis:

   Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

4. Joseph Addison:

   Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

5. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics:

   Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.