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say it: RAHY-chuhs
righteous is an adjective meaning "characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice". It is pronounced /ˈɹaɪtʃəs/ — RAHY-chuhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice
“the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for righteous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.