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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

based on what is morally good or merited;

e.g. The academy treated the allegations of student misconduct with just seriousness.

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All right

Alone

Barely

But

Candid

Colorable

Common sense

Companionate

Competent

Condign

Conscientious

Decent

Deserved

Disinterested

Dispassionate

Due

Equal

Equitable

Ethic

Ethical

Evenhanded

Exactly

Exclusively

Fair

Firm

Good

Hard

Hardly

Honest

Honorable

Impartial

Incorrupt

Incorruptible

Indifferent

Informed

Justified

Kosher

Late

Lately

Levelheaded

Literally

Logical

Merely

Moral

New

Newly

Nice

Noble

Nonpartisan

Now

Objective

Objectively

Only

Pitch-perfect

Precisely

Principled

Purely

Rational

Reasonable

Recently

Respectable

Right

Right-minded

Righteous

Rightful

Scarcely

Scrupulous

Sensible

Simply

Smack-dab

Sober

Solely

Solid

Square

Squarely

Stand-up

Statutory

Straight

True

Unbiased

Unimpeachable

Unobjectionable

Unprejudiced

Upright

Upstanding

Valid

Validity

Virtuous

Well-founded

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Opposite Words

About

Absolutely

Achingly

Additionally

Ago

All

Almighty

Also

Altogether

Approximately

Arbitrary

Archly

Around

Atrocious

Bad

Badly

Base

Basically

Beastly

Before

Bent

Besides

Biased

Big-time

Black

Blameworthy

Bone

Censurable

Chiefly

Colored

Contemptible

Corking

Corrupt

Cracking

Criminal

Crooked

Culpable

Cutthroat

Damn

Damned

Dark

Dead

Deadly

Decadent

Deceitful

Deceptive

Definitely

Degenerate

Degraded

Depraved

Desperately

Despicable

Despotic

Detestable

Dictatorial

Differently

Dirty

Discreditable

Discriminating

Discriminative

Discriminatory

Disgraceful

Dishonest

Dishonorable

Disreputable

Dissipated

Dissolute

Distorted

Double-dealing

Down-the-line

Duplicitous

Early

Easily

Eminently

Enormously

Enough

Entire

Entirely

Eristic

Errant

Erstwhile

Especially

Even

Evil

Evil-minded

Ex parte

Exactly

Exceedingly

Exceptionally

Extra

Extremely

Fallacious

False

Fantastically

Far

Fiercely

Filthy

Flat

Flat-out

Flimsy

Formerly

Foul

Fraudulent

Fully

Generally

Greatly

Groundless

Heartily

Heavily

Heretofore

High-handed

Highly

Hitherto

Ignoble

Ignominious

Illegal

Illegitimate

Illicit

Illogical

Immensely

Immoral

Imperious

Implausible

Improper

Inapplicable

Inapposite

Inappropriate

Inapt

Incoherent

Inconsequential

Incorrect

Incredibly

Indecent

Indecorous

Indefensible

Inequitable

Infamous

Iniquitous

Irrational

Irrelative

Irrelevant

Jaundiced

Jolly

Kafkaesque

Knavish

Largely

Lawless

Libertine

Like

Likewise

Loose

Louche

Low-minded

Lowdown

Lying

Machiavellian

Mainly

Majorly

Mean

Mendacious

Mightily

Mighty

Misguided

Monstrous

Mortally

Most

Mostly

Nasty

Naughty

Near

Nefarious

Nonobjective

Nonrational

Nonvalid

Notorious

Objectionable

Offensive

One-sided

Opprobrious

Out

Overall

Overly

Overmuch

Paltry

Partial

Particularly

Partisan

Passing

Peremptory

Perfectly

Perverse

Perverted

Plumb

Predisposed

Predominantly

Prejudiced

Primarily

Profligate

Quite

Rascally

Rattling

Real

Really

Reasonless

Reprehensible

Reprobate

Right

Roaring

Rogue

Rotten

Roughly

Say

Seamy

Seriously

Shady

Shameful

Shifty

Shoddy

Shy

Significantly

Sinful

Smooth-tongued

Snide

So

Some

Somewhat

Sordid

Sore

Sorely

Spanking

Specially

Stinking

Stone-cold

Such

Super

Surreal

That

Thoroughly

Thumping

Too

Totally

Tremendously

Unbecoming

Unbeseeming

Unco

Unconscionable

Unconvincing

Underhand

Underhanded

Undue

Unduly

Unequal

Unethical

Unfair

Unfounded

Unfriendly

Uninformed

Unjust

Unjustifiable

Unjustified

Unlawful

Unmeet

Unprincipled

Unreasonable

Unreasoned

Unreasoning

Unreliable

Unrighteous

Unsavory

Unscrupulous

Unseemly

Unsound

Unsubstantiated

Unsuitable

Unsupported

Unsympathetic

Untenable

Untrustworthy

Untruthful

Unwarranted

Unworthy

Utterly

Vaguely

Vastly

Venal

Very

Vicious

Vile

Villainous

Warped

Way

Weak

Well

Whacking

Wholly

Wicked

Wide

Wildly

Willful

Worse

Wrong

Wrongful

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Accurate

Actual

Actually

Alike

Almost

Angelic

Applicable

Appropriate

Approximately

Apt

Aptly

Balanced

Basically

Becoming

Certain

Certified

Chiefly

Chivalrous

Classy

Clean

Cogent

Colorable

Confirmed

Conscientious

Convincing

Correct

Credible

Creditable

Decent

Decorous

Dutiful

Equitable

Esteemed

Even

Exemplary

Expressly

Fair

Felicitous

Fit

Fitted

Fitting

Forthright

Frank

Generally

Genuinely

Good

Goody-goody

High-minded

Immaculate

Impartial

Incorrupt

Incorruptible

Innocent

Inoffensive

Irreproachable

Largely

Law-abiding

Lawful

Legal

Legit

Legitimate

Licit

Likewise

Lily-white

Mainly

Meet

Minutely

Moral

Moralistic

Mostly

Nearly

Nice

Noble

Observant

Open

Partly

Perfectly

Pharisaical

Plausible

Polite

Predominantly

Pretty

Primarily

Principled

Proper

Pure

Rational

Real

Really

Reasonable

Rectitudinous

Reliable

Reputable

Requisite

Respectful

Responsible

Right

Right-minded

Righteous

Roughly

Sanctimonious

Scrupulous

Seemly

Self-righteous

Solid

Somewhat

Spotless

Square

Straight

Straightforward

Strict

Stringent

Suitable

Sure

Tried-and-true

True

Truly

Trustworthy

Trusty

Unassailable

Uncompromising

Uncorrupted

Unerring

Unimpeachable

Unobjectionable

Upright

Upstanding

Very

Virtuous

Worthy

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