RIGHTEOUS meaning: Morally right, just, and virtuous

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word righteous:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

righteous: Merriam-Webster.com
righteous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
righteous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
righteous: Collins English Dictionary
righteous: Vocabulary.com
Righteous, righteous: Wordnik
righteous, the righteous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
righteous: Wiktionary
righteous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
righteous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
righteous: Infoplease Dictionary
Righteous, righteous, the righteous: Dictionary.com
righteous: Online Etymology Dictionary
righteous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Righteous (album), Righteous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Righteous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
righteous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
righteous: Rhymezone
righteous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
righteous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
righteous: Free Dictionary
righteous: Mnemonic Dictionary
righteous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
righteous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

righteous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

righteous: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

righteous: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

righteous, righteous, righteous: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Righteous: 1960's Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Free from sin or guilt.
▸ adjective:  Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony.
▸ adjective:  Justified morally.
▸ adjective:  (slang, US) Awesome; great.
▸ adjective:  (slang, US) Major; large; significant.
▸ verb:  To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

Opposite:

wicked, corrupt, immoral, unscrupulous, sinful

Types:

just, fair, good, moral, ethical, moralistic, moralizing, holier-than-thou, more...

Phrases:

the righteous, Righteous indignation, self righteous, army of the righteous, Righteous Among the Nations, more...

Adjectives:

self, most, few, unrighteous, full, wicked, less, virtuous, weary, ungodly, highest

Colors:

white, gold, silver, blue, purple, more...

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