Definition of "righteous"

righteous

/ˈɹaɪt͡ʃəs/

adjective
comparative more righteous, superlative most righteous
1. Free from sin or guilt.
  Quotations
  The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Proverbs 28:1
2. Moral and virtuous, to the point of sanctimony.
3. Justified morally.
4. (slang, US) Awesome; great.
  Quotations
  The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
  1986, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Motion Picture), spoken by Grace Wheelberg (Edie McClurg)
  He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
  1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story, page 191
  Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
  2008, Stephen King, Graduation Afternoon
5. (slang, US) Major; large; significant.
  Quotations
  He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.
  2021, G. S. Jennsen, Amaranthe V: Riven
verb
third-person singular simple present righteouses, present participle righteousing, simple past and past participle righteoused
1. To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
  Quotations
  Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
  2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 101

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