Unrighteous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unrighteous \Un*right"eous\, a. [OE. unrightwise, AS.
     unrihtw[imac]s. See {Un-} not, and {Righteous}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Not righteous; evil; wicked; sinful; as, an unrighteous
        man.
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     2. Contrary to law and equity; unjust; as, an unrighteous
        decree or sentence.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un*right"eous*ly}, adv. --
        {Un*right"eous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unrighteous
       adj : not righteous; "an unrighteous man"; "an unrighteous law"
             [ant: {righteous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "unrighteous":
     Adamic, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, backsliding,
     carnal, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, erring, evil,
     fallen, fleshly, frail, godless, hardly the thing, ignominious,
     illegal, impious, improper, impure, inappropriate, incorrect,
     indecorous, infamous, infirm, irreligious, lapsed, not done,
     not the thing, of easy virtue, off-base, off-color, out-of-line,
     peccable, postlapsarian, prodigal, recidivist, recidivistic,
     sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible,
     un-Christly, unangelic, unchaste, unchristian, unclean, undue,
     unequitable, unfair, unfit, unfitting, ungodly, ungood, unholy,
     unjust, unlawful, unsaintly, unseemly, unsuitable, unvirtuous,
     virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, wicked, wrong, wrongful