Word Meanings - OVERRIGHTEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.

Related words: (words related to OVERRIGHTEOUS)

• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• HYPOCRISY
  The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• RIGHTEOUSLY
  In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
• RIGHTEOUSED
  Made righteous.
• OVERRIGHTEOUS
  Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
• SELF-RIGHTEOUS
  Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.
• UNRIGHTEOUS
  1. Not righteous; evil; wicked; sinful; as, an unrighteous man. 2. Contrary to law and equity; unjust; as, an unrighteous decree or sentence. -- Un*right"eous*ly, adv. -- Un*right"eous*ness, n.
• SIMPLY
  1. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely. make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make
• PIMPLY
  Pimpled.
• SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.
• UPRIGHTEOUSLY
  In an upright or just manner. Shak.
• DIMPLY
  Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.