virtuous
英 ['v??tj??s; -t???s]
美['v?t?u?s]
- adj. 善良的；有道德的；貞潔的；正直的；有效力的
英英釋意
- 1. of moral excellence;
- "a genuinely good person"
- "a just cause"
- "an upright and respectable man"
- "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass
- 2. morally excellent
- 3. behaving according to standards of what is right or just;
- "led a virtuous (or moral) life"
- 4. in a state of sexual virginity;
- "pure and vestal modesty"
- "a spinster or virgin lady"
- "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"