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Righteous vs Top-notch - What's the difference?

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Righteous is a related term of top-notch.


As adjectives the difference between righteous and top-notch

is that righteous is free from sin or guilt while top-notch is of the highest quality; excellent, first-rate.

As a verb righteous

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

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.

    top-notch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * topnotch

    Adjective

  • Of the highest quality; excellent, first-rate