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unrightwise

unrightwise is the obsolete form of unrighteous.

Meaning of unrighteous

Adjective

unrighteous (comparative more unrighteous, superlative most unrighteous)

  1. Not righteous; wicked.
    • It is well for our weak and wicked race that our unrighteous wishes lack the temptation of power.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 283
    Antonyms:
    righteous

Forms of unrightwise

comparativemore unrightwise
superlativemost unrightwise

Questions about unrightwise

What is unrightwise the obsolete form of?
Unrightwise is the obsolete form of unrighteous.

Words near unrightwise in the dictionary

  1. unrightfulness
  2. unrighting
  3. unrightly
  4. unrightness
  5. unrights
  6. unrightwise
  7. unrigid
  8. unrigorous
  9. unrigorously
  10. unrigorousness
  11. unrigs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrightwise (page history and authors); unrighteous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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