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, virtue, moral excellence

2. merit, virtuenoun

   any admirable quality or attribute

   "work of great merit"

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

3. virtue, chastity, sexual moralitynoun

   morality with respect to sexual relations

   Synonyms:
   sexual morality, virtue, 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. Feltham:

   It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world?s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is.

2. Jason Owens:

   Just by virtue of the fact that we literally encounter people from dozens of countries every year, it doesnt make sense to think that racial profiling would ever pay off for us because we would be missing out on a vast majority the criminal element.

3. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

4. Juvenal:

   One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

5. Diogenes Laertius, Zeno:

   One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.