righteous

adj

1. Free from sin or guilt.

   “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.”

2. Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony.

   “Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art.”

3. Justified morally.

   “righteous indignation”

4. (US, slang)Awesome; great.

   “The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.”

   “He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.”

   “Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.”

5. (US, slang)Major; large; significant.

   “He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.”

verb

1. To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

   “Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.”