| Main Entry: | virtuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good, ethical; innocent |
Synonyms: |
blameless, celibate, chaste, clean-living, effective, effectual, efficient, excellent, exemplary, faithful, guiltless, high-principled, honest, honorable, in the clear, incorruptible, inculpable, irreprehensible, kosher*, legit, moral, moralistic, noble, on the level, on the up and up, praiseworthy, principled, pure, regular, right-minded, righteous, spotless, straight, true-blue, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, up front, upright, wholesome, without reproach, worthy |
Antonyms: |
bad, sinful, unethical, vile, wicked |
| Main Entry: | angelic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweet, kind, and usually beautiful |
Synonyms: |
adorable, archangelic, beatific, beneficent, celestial, cherubic, devout, divine, entrancing, ethereal, godly, good, heavenly, holy, humble, innocent, lovely, otherworldly, pure, radiant, rapturous, righteous, saintly, self-sacrificing, seraphic, virtuous |
Antonyms: |
demonic, devilish, fiendish, unkind |
| Main Entry: | blameless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not responsible |
Synonyms: |
above suspicion, clean, clean-handed, clear, crimeless, exemplary, faultless, good, guilt-free, guiltless, immaculate, impeccable, in the clear, inculpable, innocent, irreprehensible, irreproachable, not guilty, perfect, pure, righteous, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unoffending, unspotted, unsullied, untarnished, upright, virtuous |
Antonyms: |
culpable, guilty, impeachable, reproachable, responsible |
| Main Entry: | celibate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abstaining from sexual activity |
Synonyms: |
chaste, continent, pure, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
Antonyms: |
active, promiscuous |
| Main Entry: | chaste |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pure, incorrupt |
Synonyms: |
austere, celibate, clean, continent, controlled, decent, decorous, elegant, immaculate, impotent, inexperienced, innocent, intemerate, modest, monogamous, moral, neat, platonic, proper, prudish, quiet, refined, restrained, simple, spotless, stainless, subdued, unaffected, unblemished, uncontaminated, undefiled, unstained, unsullied, unwed, vestal, virginal, virtuous, wholesome |
Antonyms: |
corrupt, defiled, dirty, lewd, unchaste, wanton |
| Main Entry: | decent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectable, appropriate |
Synonyms: |
approved, becoming, befitting, chaste, clean, comely, comme il faut, conforming, continent, correct, decorous, delicate, ethical, fit, fitting, good, honest, honorable, immaculate, mannerly, modest, moral, nice, noble, on the up and up, polite, presentable, proper, prudent, pure, reserved, right, seemly, spotless, stainless, standard, straight, straight arrow, straight shooting, suitable, trustworthy, unblemished, undefiled, untarnished, upright, virtuous, worthy |
Antonyms: |
inappropriate, indecent, poor, unrespectable, unsuitable, unsuited |
| Main Entry: | decent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, generous |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, courteous, friendly, gracious, helpful, obliging, thoughtful, virtuous |
Antonyms: |
disobliging, indecent, unaccommodating, ungenerous, unkind |
| Main Entry: | effective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, persuasive |
Synonyms: |
able, active, adequate, capable, cogent, compelling, competent, convincing, direct, effectual, efficacious, efficient, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, having lead in pencil, impressive, live, moving, on the ball, operative, playing hardball, potent, powerful, powerhouse, practical, producing, resultant, serviceable, serving, sound, striking, sufficient, telling, trenchant, useful, valid, virtuous, wicked*, yielding |
| Notes: | effective means 'having a (desired) result or effect,' effectual is 'succeeding in producing a desired result or effect,' and efficacious means the same as effectual as well as 'serving as an effective solution or remedy' |
Antonyms: |
fruitless, impotent, incapable, ineffective, unproductive, useless, weak |
| Main Entry: | effectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential; authoritative |
Synonyms: |
accomplishing, achieving, adequate, binding, capable, conclusive, decisive, determinative, effecting, effective, efficacious, efficient, forcible, fulfilling, in force, lawful, legal, licit, potent, powerful, practicable, productive, qualified, serviceable, sound, strong, successful, telling, useful, valid, virtuous, workable |
Antonyms: |
impotent, incapable, ineffectual, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless, weak |
| Main Entry: | efficacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | efficient, productive |
Synonyms: |
active, adequate, capable, competent, effective, effectual, energetic, influential, operative, potent, powerful, puissant, serviceable, strong, successful, useful, virtuous |
Antonyms: |
incapable, inefficacious, inefficient, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless |