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Mighteous vs Righteous - What's the difference?

mighteous | righteous |

As adjectives the difference between mighteous and righteous

is that mighteous is possessing might; mighty; powerful; mightily righteous while righteous is free from sin or guilt.

As a verb righteous is

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

mighteous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing might; mighty; powerful; mightily righteous.
  • *1916 , Baynard Rush Hall, James Albert Woodburn, The new purchase :
    • Still, it was quite edifying to witness the anxious bustling, and to hear the learned remarks of our dwarf Esculapius; who among other things, was constrained to acknowledge that — "unassisted nature had yet mighteous potential efficacity of her own intrinsic internal force, [...]
  • *1969 , Black World/Negro Digest - Oct 1969:
    • We used to sleep the sleep of the mighteous , never reaching for d'epistle tucked, unfriared, under the brillo's ear.
  • * Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil :
    • The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy spirit is yet not a chasm less drear.
  • *1998 , G. N. Das, Shri Rama: the man and his mission :
    • In the gods and humans, demons and birds I have my followers everywhere obedient to me; Khara and Dushana, the demons, are as mighteous as I myself.

    righteous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • free from sin or guilt
  • moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
  • justified morally
  • (slang, US) awesome

    • Derived terms

    * righteousness * self-righteous

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
    • Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.