Righteous vs Rigid - What's the difference?
righteous | rigid |
free from sin or guilt
moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
justified morally
(slang, US) awesome
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
As adjectives the difference between righteous and rigid
is that righteous is free from sin or guilt while rigid is rigid.As a verb righteous
is to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.righteous
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* righteousness * self-righteousVerb
(es)- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
rigid
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.