vertueux
French, adjective/vɛʁ.tɥø/
vertueux is a French adjective meaning “virtuous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a de la vertu”.
What does vertueux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
virtuous
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a de la vertu. 2. Qui ne commet pas de péchés. 3. Qui est chaste, pudique. 4. Qui est inspiré par la vertu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vertueux
- vertueuse feminine
- vertueuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vertueux?
- /vɛʁ.tɥø/
- \vɛʁ.tɥø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vertueux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vertueux in French?
vertueux appears 3.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).