DROSSINESSES Antonyms

• the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree

• an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels

• that which is pleasing or valuable or useful

• moral excellence or admirableness

• an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

• moral soundness

• any admirable quality or attribute

• the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)

• be worthy or deserving

• being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

• the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

• a woman's virtue or chastity

• an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

• a degree or grade of excellence or worth

• a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

• (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

• high social status

• of superior grade

• of high social status

• a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed

• the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

• the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else

• relative darkness or lightness of a color

• (music) the relative duration of a musical note

• an ideal accepted by some individual or group

• fix or determine the value of; assign a value to

• hold dear

• regard highly; think much of

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• estimate the value of

• the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

• any admirable quality or attribute

• morality with respect to sexual relations

• a particular moral excellence

• French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895)

• an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value

• the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful

• (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way

• having a specified value