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Adjective virtuous has 4 senses
- good, just, upright, 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
Antonym: unrighteous (indirect, via righteous)
- virtuous - morally excellent
Antonyms: wicked, depraved, evil, vicious, iniquitous, sinful, ungodly, irreclaimable, irredeemable, unredeemable, unreformable, nefarious, villainous, peccable, peccant, heavy
- virtuous - behaving according to standards of what is right or just; "led a virtuous (or moral) life"
Antonym: immoral (indirect, via moral, amoral)
Antonyms: amoral, unmoral (indirect, via moral, immoral)
- pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, 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"
Antonym: unchaste (indirect, via chaste)
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