| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
Synonyms: |
advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fineness, fortitude, generosity, good point, goodness, high-mindedness, hope, ideal, incorruptibility, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, trustworthiness, uprightness, value, worth, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
dishonor, evil, immorality, vice |
| Concept: | Virtue. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
virtue; virtuousness; morality; moral rectitude; integrity (probity); nobleness., morals; ethics (duty); cardinal virtues., merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control (resolution) [more]; self-denial (temperance) [more]., well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence.
-verbs
be virtuous; practice virtue; do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge [more]; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right path., set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best behavior.
-adjectives
virtuous, good; innocent; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled., exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike.
-adverbs
virtuously, e merito.
-phrases
esse quam videri bonus malebat [Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht; "virtue the greatest of all monarchies" [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; virtus
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Antonyms: |
vice |
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| Main Entry: | amenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant thing |
Synonyms: |
advantage, betterment, comfort, convenience, enhancement, enrichment, excellence, extravagance, facility, frill, improvement, luxury, merit, quality, service, superfluity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
abomination, inconvenience |
| Main Entry: | attribute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feature |
Synonyms: |
aspect, character, characteristic, facet, idiosyncrasy, indication, mark, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, quirk, sign, speciality, symbol, trait, virtue |
| Main Entry: | caliber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity; character |
Synonyms: |
ability, appetency, capability, competence, constitution, dignity, distinction, endowment, essence, faculty, force, gifts, habilitation, merit, nature, parts, power, quality, scope, stature, strength, talent, value, virtue, worth, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | celibacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstinence from sexual activity |
Synonyms: |
abstention, chastity, continence, frigidity, impotence, maidenhood, purity, singleness, virginity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
promiscuousness |
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | typical feature, trait |
Synonyms: |
affection, aspect, attribute, badge, bag, bearing, bent, caliber, cast, complexion, component, differentia, disposition, distinction, earmark, endowment, essence, essential, faculty, flavor, frame, idiosyncrasy, inclination, individuality, lineament, mannerism, mark, mood, nature, originality, particularity, peculiarity, personality, point, property, quality, singularity, specialty, streak, stripe, style, symptom, temperament, tendency, thing, thumbprint, tinge, tone, trademark, turn, virtue |
Antonyms: |
abnormality |
| Main Entry: | chastity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celibacy, purity |
Synonyms: |
abstemiousness, abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, decency, demureness, devotion, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, modesty, monogamy, morality, naiveté, restraint, singleness, sinlessness, spotlessness, temperance, uprightness, virginity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
dirtiness, fornication |
| Main Entry: | continence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-restraint |
Synonyms: |
abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism, celibacy, chastity, forbearance, moderation, refraining, self-control, sobriety, temperance, virtue |
| Main Entry: | decency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respectable behavior |
Synonyms: |
appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
immodesty, immorality, impropriety, indecency, obsceneness, obscenity |