Synonyms for virtuous
ˈvɜr tʃu əsvir·tu·ous

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1. virtuousadjective

   Synonyms:
   righteous, good

2. virtuousadjective

   Full of virtue, having excellent moral character.

   Synonyms:
   good, righteous

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1. virtuous

   Innocent, in the full sense, signifies not tainted with sin; not having done wrong or violated legal or moral precept or duty; as, an innocent babe. Innocent is a negative word, expressing less than righteous, upright, or virtuous, which imply knowledge of good and evil, with free choice of the good. A little child or a lamb is innocent; a tried and faithful man is righteous, upright, virtuous. Immaculate, pure, and sinless may be used either of one who has never known the possibility of evil or of one who has perfectly and triumphantly resisted it. Innocent is used of inanimate substances in the sense of harmless; as, an innocent remedy, that is, one not dangerous, even if not helpful. Innocent, in a specific case, signifies free from the guilt of a particular act, even tho the total character may be very evil; as, the thief was found to be innocent of the murder. See CANDID; PURE.

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   Synonyms:
   blameless, clean, clear, faultless, guileless, guiltless, harmless, immaculate, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, pure, right, righteous, sinless, spotless, stainless, upright

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1. virtuous

   Synonyms:
   upright, moral, chaste, modest, pure

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. virtuousadjective

   morally excellent

   Synonyms:
   virgin, virginal, pure, vestal

   Antonyms:
   unredeemable, ungodly, iniquitous, unreformable, unchaste, peccable, nefarious, sinful, flagitious, irredeemable, heinous, wicked, peccant, heavy, irreclaimable, villainous, vicious, evil

2. pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuousadjective

   in a state of sexual virginity

   "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"

   Synonyms:
   pure(a), utter(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), double-dyed(a), perfect(a), virgin, gross(a), staring(a), arrant(a), virginal, stark(a), consummate(a), everlasting(a), complete(a), sodding(a), saturated, pure, vestal

   Antonyms:
   villainous, heavy, peccant, nefarious, peccable, flagitious, evil, sinful, vicious, ungodly, unreformable, iniquitous, unchaste, heinous, wicked, irreclaimable, irredeemable, unredeemable

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1. virtuousadjective

   Synonyms:
   upright, honest, good, righteous, exemplary, worthy

2. virtuousadjective

   Synonyms:
   chaste, modest, pure

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1. virtuousadjective

   Synonyms:
   good, exemplary, moral, pure, continent, upright

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1. List of paraphrases for "virtuous":

   righteous, virtuoso, benign

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How to use virtuous in a sentence?

1. P. J. O'Rourke:

   There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   The silence of the virtuous is the loudest endorsement of wickedness. -Aloo Denish Obiero

3. Confucius:

   Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.

4. Confucius, The Confucian Analects:

   If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

5. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton:

   The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.