virtuous
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəs//
- United States//ˈvɝt͡ʃuəs//
Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
adjective
- 1
Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
Successful communities need strong, selfless leaders and a virtuous people.
Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad.
Etymology
From Middle English vertuous, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertuous, vertous, ultimately from Late Latin virtuōsus, from Latin virtūs. By surface analysis, virtue + -ous. Doublet of virtuoso and piecewise doublet of virtùous.
Forms
- comparative
- more virtuous
- superlative
- most virtuous
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virtuous · Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
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