Vocabulary
Virtuous
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having or showing high moral standards.
Urdu meaning
پاک دامن،نیک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Rising incomes, consumption and savings of the poor help expand investment and profit options for businesses, which create more jobs and incomes for the poor, starting a virtuous circle.
- Its nonsensical pseudo-scientific claims virtuous people beget virtuous children being one are readily disproven.
- Positive, restorative narratives possess the same self-sustaining power as their negative counterparts, creating virtuous cycles where confidence breeds achievement.
- Those who had the privilege of knowing Manmohan Singh-ji recognised in him a man to whom the words of the Guru Granth Sahib became a vade mecum: `If thou desirest thy good, O Man, perform virtuous deeds and be humble`.
- Innovation was considered bid`at (novelty) and frowned upon, while taglid (imitation) was considered virtuous.
Synonyms
righteous, good, moral, morally correct, ethical, upright, upstanding, high-minded
Curator example
“she considered herself very virtuous because she neither drank nor smoked”
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