righteous

Word family

1 righteous indignation/anger etc EMOTIONALstrong feelings of anger when you think a situation is not morally right or fair 义愤

He was full of righteous indignation about the attack.

他对这次袭击事件义愤填膺。

Examples from the Corpus

righteous indignation/anger etc• Desperately he tried to relight the fires of righteous indignation.• I loved the little note of righteous indignation.• Suddenly it was not the sunlight that made Polly glow but righteous indignation.• He asked with no malice, with no thoughts of righteous indignation and she sensed this and answered his questions.• The Comintern expressed righteous indignation at such an attack, although eighteen months later it tacitly accepted all these points.• Her righteous anger moved him, filled him with a weird sense of shame that jarred him.• His anger at her rejection was the vicious, righteous anger of one who felt betrayed.• The great goddess Nemesis, which means righteous anger, undertook to bring this about.

2 formalGOOD/MORAL morally good and fair 正派的，正直的

a righteous God

正义的上帝

—righteously adverbadv

—righteousness noun [uncountableU]

→ self-righteous

Examples from the Corpus

righteous• His anger at her rejection was the vicious, righteous anger of one who felt betrayed.• a righteous dude• I have seen eating obsessions up close before, but never one with such a strong sense of righteous healthiness.• The Comintern expressed righteous indignation at such an attack, although eighteen months later it tacitly accepted all these points.• There was much stamping of ministerial feet, but, sadly, this show of righteous indignation led to very little action.• Desperately he tried to relight the fires of righteous indignation.• Burgess' illegal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh was quite eager to make.• Who among us is so righteous that a sane society would entrust her with the power to obliterate a city?• No matter how good and righteous you think your cause is, you cannot break the law.

Origin righteous

Old English rihtwis, from riht “right” (noun) + wis “wise”

right·eous adjectiveadj

Chinese

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IELTS BNC: 14454 COCA: 10845

righteous

Morally good or correct: moral, correct, right...

General words used to describe emotions: acutely, affective, basic...

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