Suitable vs Righteous - What's the difference?
suitable | righteous | Related terms |
Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
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:
Suitable is a related term of righteous.
As adjectives the difference between suitable and righteous
is that suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion while righteous is free from sin or guilt.As a verb righteous is
to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.suitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* fit for purpose (British) * up to standard (British)Antonyms
* unsuitableDerived terms
* suitabilitySee also
* fit * meet * appropriate * apt * pertinent * seemly * eligible * consonant * corresponding * congruousExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsrighteous
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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.