moral
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *mōs
Latin mōs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin mōrālis
Old French moralbor.
Middle English moral
English moral
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: more moral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: morals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: morals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moraling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: moralling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: moraled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: moraled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: moralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: moralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude.
pos: adj
examples: moral judgments; a moral poem
a moral obligation
She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
gloss: Conforming to a given standard of right behaviour.
pos: adj
examples: a moral action
gloss: Being sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Capable of right and wrong action.
pos: adj
examples: a moral agent
gloss: Probable but not proved.
pos: adj
examples: a moral certainty
gloss: Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
pos: adj
examples: a moral victory; moral support
gloss: The ethical significance or practical lesson.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: a candidate with strong morals
gloss: A depiction of good or heroic actions.
pos: noun
gloss: A morality play.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A moral certainty.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: "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."
gloss: An exact counterpart.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: To moralize.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: immoral
unethical
corrupt
unscrupulous
amoral
non-moral
pseudomoral
unmoral
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