moral
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
moral
- Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
- moral judgments; a moral poem
- She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
- Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
- the wiser and more moral part of mankind
- a moral obligation
- Capable of right and wrong action.
- a moral agent
- Probable but not proved.
- a moral certainty
- Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
- a moral victory; moral support
- (conforming to a standard of right behaviour) ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous
- (probable but not proved) virtual
- French: moral
- German: moralisch
- Italian: morale
- Portuguese: moral
- Russian: нравоучи́тельный
- Spanish: moral
- Russian: духо́вный
- German: moralisch
- Russian: мора́льный
moral (plural morals)
- (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
- The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
- 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)
- We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
- (chiefly, in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
- a candidate with strong morals
- (obsolete) A morality play.
- (slang, dated) A certainty.
- (slang, dated) An exact counterpart.
- French: morale
- German: Moral
- Portuguese: moralidade
- Russian: мора́ль
moral (morals, present participle moraling; past and past participle moraled)
- (intransitive) To moralize.
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