What's the difference between good and virtuous?

Good


Definition:

  • (superl.) Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.
  • (superl.) Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions.
  • (superl.) Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto.
  • (superl.) Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for.
  • (superl.) Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed especially by at.
  • (superl.) Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit.
  • (superl.) Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.
  • (superl.) Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.
  • (superl.) Not lacking or deficient; full; complete.
  • (superl.) Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc.
  • (n.) That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.
  • (n.) Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc.
  • (n.) Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property.
  • (adv.) Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible.
  • (v. t.) To make good; to turn to good.
  • (v. t.) To manure; to improve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (3) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (4) I want to get some good insight before I make my decision,” said Hiddink.
  • (5) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
  • (6) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (7) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
  • (8) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (10) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (11) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
  • (12) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
  • (14) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
  • (15) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
  • (16) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
  • (17) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (18) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
  • (19) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (20) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.

Virtuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
  • (a.) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
  • (a.) Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
  • (a.) Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.
  • (a.) Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To stand virtuously in the grandstand looking down upon a world whose best efforts in inevitably imperfect times can never match your own exalted standards is a definition of irrelevance, not virtue.
  • (2) We insist that its citizens ought to be more virtuous versions of ourselves; when they fall short, our rage is terrible.
  • (3) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
  • (4) The zesty, citrus whiff of oranges freshens up the January kitchen, drawing a line under heavy celebratory food, and lighting up the virtuous, but enticing path to a lighter, healthier diet.
  • (5) In theory, there is a virtuous commercial circle, with programming created and owned in-house, performing well on ITV, then making megabucks when it is sold around the world.
  • (6) Twenty-First Century Populism , edited by Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell, describes how populism appeals to voters because it "pits a virtuous and homogenous people against… dangerous 'others' who together are depicted as depriving the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity and voice".
  • (7) The virtuous part is expected to be sold to a private bidder after the general election.
  • (8) They were the virtuous rebels who rose in the name of all kinds of folk gurus and deities, including Mao Zedong, to fight corrupt officials and evil rulers, and restore morality.
  • (9) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
  • (10) In this context, treating human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons is a virtuous act, which meets both patients' and society's health needs and affirms the moral mission of health care.
  • (11) If the reaction to another Gawker story last year, since taken down, that possibly outed an executive is any indication, most news outlets already think of themselves as better and more virtuous than Gawker – they would never stoop so low as to publish a sex tape in the first place.
  • (12) Assuming that caring is a virtue, it is concluded that ethically virtuous nurses must possess the caring attributes and demonstrate caring actions.
  • (13) It is a virtuous circle, on which the quality of teaching and the rigour of courses has no bearing.
  • (14) The expansive, leisurely poems in the new collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück, are interspersed with one-paragraph prose-poems – miniature parables often framed as personal anecdotes, like this week's choice, A Work of Fiction.
  • (15) Premier League locked in to virtuous circle and likely to stay on its perch | Sean Ingle Read more The 20-year-old, who moved to the Stade Vélodrome last summer from Nantes for £1m, has attracted attention for his performances this season despite his club struggling in mid-table in Ligue 1.
  • (16) These two second-order factors of Net Affect and Authoritarian Virtuousness are further discussed in light of their intrafactor and interfactor relationships.
  • (17) And how can we create a virtuous cycle whereby better employment practices and opportunities for career development feed into higher productivity?
  • (18) Business, the media and, ultimately, individuals are caught – and the un-virtuous circles continue.
  • (19) "You could put everything back into a community and create a virtuous cycle."
  • (20) In other times and places, anger is seen not just as part and parcel of life, but even as a virtuous emotion.