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. Susan Rice:

   What has happened over the last several weeks by virtue of the invitation that was issued by the speaker and the acceptance of it by Prime Minister Netanyahu two weeks in advance of his election is that on both sides there has now been injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think ... it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship.

2. Peter Kratsa:

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3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The only reward of virtue is virtue -- the only way to have a friend is to be one.

4. Socrates:

   I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

5. Confucius:

   The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.