a. | 1. | Possessing or exhibiting virtue. |
2. | Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. | |
2. | Chaste; pure; - applied especially to women. | |
3. | Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent. | |
4. | Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; |
Adj. | 1. | virtuous - of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass |
2. | virtuous - morally excellent Antonyms: wicked - morally bad in principle or practice | |
3. | virtuous - behaving according to standards of what is right or just; "led a virtuous (or moral) life" | |
4. | virtuous - in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" |