Righteous

/ˈɹaɪt͡ʃəs/ · adjective

Meaning

Free from sin or guilt..

Definitions by Sense

1. Free from sin or guilt.
2. Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony.
3. Justified morally.
4. (slang, US) Awesome; great.
5. (slang, US) Major; large; significant.
6. To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

Example Sentences

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.

Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art.

righteous indignation

The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.

He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.

Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.

He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.

Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.

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Word Forms

• more righteous
• most righteous
• rightuous
• rightwise
• righteouses
• righteousing
• righteoused

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