Moral

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