Definitions for virtuous

virtuous vir·tu·ous

Spelling: [vur-choo-uh s]
IPA: /ˈvɜr tʃu əs/

Virtuous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in virtuous (iorstuuv).

Definitions for virtuous

adjective

  1. conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright:
  2. chaste:

Origin of virtuous

1300-50; alteration (with i Latin) of Middle English vertuous Anglo-French Late Latin virtuōsus, equivalent to Latin virtu(s) virtue + -ōsus Examples for virtuous

At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful.

It is composed of a brave, a free, a virtuous, and an intelligent people.

Some look at the Aspen museum and wonder whether Ban will be able to continue creating his humanitarian “virtuous” architecture.

The virtuous Melissa parted from them with many blessings and tears.

A May 2014 Slate article by Sam Kean details the tragic changes he suffered “from a virtuous foreman to a sociopathic drifter.”

That this should be so in the case of his virtuous and legal connection he was perfectly certain.

In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.

From which virtuous and venomous opinion the undersigned begs to differ.

All we are told about her is, that her name was Agatha, and that she was learned and virtuous.

Halt and Catch Fire seems like it could be that sort of series: virtuous but minor.

Word Value for virtuous
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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