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moral

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Scrabble points
7
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9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈmɒɹəl/
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/ˈmɒɹəl/ · /ˈmoɹəl/ · /ˈmɑɹəl/

Definition of moral

14 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
    “moral judgments; a moral poem”
    “a moral obligation”
    “She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.”
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adj

  1. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
    “moral judgments; a moral poem”
    “a moral obligation”
    “She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.”
  2. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
    “a moral action”
    “The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.”
  3. Capable of right and wrong action.
    “a moral agent”
  4. Probable but not proved.
    “a moral certainty”
  5. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
    “a moral victory; moral support”

noun

  1. 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.”
    “We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.”
  2. (in-plural)Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
    “a candidate with strong morals”
  3. A depiction of good or heroic actions.
  4. (obsolete)A morality play.
  5. (dated, slang)A moral certainty.
    “"You'd better not collar anything now, because it's a moral that old Antonio would nip out behind one of those cases."”
    “"One thing," added George, after the peculiarities of the situation had been sufficiently admitted, "it's going to be the last time I'm mixed up in what isn't strictly on the level. If we get clear this once with anything like tidy, old girl, it'll be that little cottage with the pigs and poultry for a moral."”
  6. (dated, slang)An exact counterpart.

verb

  1. (intransitive)To moralize.

name

  1. A surname from Spanish.
  2. A township in Shelby County, Indiana, United States.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”) (first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).

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