Definition:
- (a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
- (a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
- (a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
- (a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
- (a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
- (a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
- (n.) The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
- (n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
- (n.) A morality play. See Morality, 5.
- (v. i.) To moralize.
Compare moral with other words:
moral vs. moray
moral vs. values
horal vs. moral
modal vs. moral
monal vs. moral
moral vs. mortal
goral vs. moral
mongolic vs. moral
mora vs. moral
moral vs. moril
book vs. moral
moral vs. mormal
moral vs. morel
moral vs. roral
loral vs. moral
moral vs. piety
moral vs. oral
coral vs. moral
minute vs. moral
advantage vs. moral
inanimate vs. moral
merciful vs. moral
decency vs. moral
moral vs. spirit
moral vs. russian
moral vs. society
intensive vs. moral
hath vs. moral
detent vs. moral
coward vs. moral
attached vs. moral
arm vs. moral
acceptable vs. moral
backcast vs. moral
cunningness vs. moral
moral vs. mural
bigfoot vs. moral
eurasian vs. moral
moral vs. uncommon
act vs. moral
madman vs. moral
king vs. moral
moral vs. skillful
bavarian vs. moral
body vs. moral
moral vs. refracted
effigy vs. moral
ethnic vs. moral
channel vs. moral
conniving vs. moral
horse vs. moral
buttocks vs. moral
denoting vs. moral
moral vs. moralizing
demonstrate vs. moral
moral vs. proverb
bird vs. moral
denote vs. moral
intensity vs. moral
moral vs. suggest
moral vs. rule
intense vs. moral
moral vs. social
ethic vs. moral
legal vs. moral
dignity vs. moral
moral vs. value
imply vs. moral
libertinism vs. moral