Usually means: Morally right, just, and virtuous.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word righteous:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. righteous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. righteous: Merriam-Webster
  3. righteous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. righteous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. righteous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. righteous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Righteous, righteous: Wordnik
  8. righteous, the righteous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. righteous: Wiktionary
  10. righteous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. righteous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. righteous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Righteous, righteous, the righteous: Dictionary.com
  14. righteous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. righteous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Righteous (album), Righteous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Righteous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. righteous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. righteous: Rhymezone
  20. righteous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. righteous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. righteous: FreeDictionary.org
  23. righteous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. righteous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. righteous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. righteous: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. righteous: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. righteous, righteous, righteous: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Righteous: 1960's Slang

(Note: See righteously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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