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rectitude

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of rectitude

1 conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong

  • encouraged the graduates to go on to live lives of unimpeachable rectitude and integrity
Synonyms of rectitude

character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, morality, probity, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness
Words Related to rectitude

high-mindedness, honor, incorruptibility, irreproachability, irreproachableness, right-mindedness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness

appropriateness, correctness, decorousness, decorum, etiquette, fitness, propriety, seemliness

ethics, morals
Near Antonyms of rectitude

impropriety, indecency, indecorum, indiscretion

debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, perversion, pervertedness, sinfulness

crookedness, dishonesty, underhandedness, unscrupulousness

lowness, meanness, viciousness, vileness

corruption
Antonyms of rectitude

badness, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, sin, villainy, wickedness

2 faithfulness to high moral standards

  • has a finely honed sense of rectitude that keeps him from cheating on exams
Synonyms of rectitude

honesty, honor, integrity, probity, righteousness, uprightness
Words Related to rectitude

blamelessness, character, conscientiousness, decency, fairness, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, morality, nobility, reputability, respectability, right-mindedness, scrupulousness, virtue, virtuousness
Near Antonyms of rectitude

corruptibility, corruption, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, disgrace, disgracefulness, disreputableness, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, profligacy, shamelessness, venality

blameworthiness, criminality, crookedness, dishonesty, immorality, unrighteousness, unscrupulousness

knavery, rascality, roguishness

meanness, reprehensibleness, rottenness, sinfulness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, wretchedness
Antonyms of rectitude

baseness, dishonor, lowness

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