virtue

virtud

Cualidad positiva del carácter de alguien, como la honestidad o la paciencia.

En inglés sencillo: A good quality in a person’s character, such as honesty or patience.

• Patience is a useful virtue.
• Honesty was one of her greatest virtues.
• He has many virtues, including kindness.

Sinónimos: good quality, strength

Antónimos: vice

Expresiones frecuentes: a virtue, virtue of patience, personal virtue

ventaja, mérito

Característica buena o útil de una persona o cosa.

En inglés sencillo: A useful or good feature of someone or something.

• The phone has the virtue of being easy to use.
• This method has several virtues.
• Her proposal has one clear virtue: simplicity.

Cómo se usa: the virtue of something (The main virtue of this plan is its low cost.)

Sinónimos: advantage, merit, strength

Antónimos: drawback

Expresiones frecuentes: virtue of something, chief virtue, great virtue

virtud, rectitud

Cualidad de comportarse bien y hacer lo que es moralmente correcto.

En inglés sencillo: The quality of behaving well and doing what is morally right.

• She believed in the value of virtue.
• Their laws were meant to encourage virtue.
• We admired his virtue as well as his courage.

Sinónimos: goodness, moral integrity

Antónimos: vice

Expresiones frecuentes: moral virtue, life of virtue, virtue and vice