Synonyms for moral
ˈmɔr əl, ˈmɒr-moral

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. moralnoun

   Antonyms:
   amoral, non-moral, unmoral, immoral

2. moraladjective

   Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

   The moral of the is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.

   Antonyms:
   unmoral, non-moral, immoral, amoral

3. moraladjective

   Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

   a moral obligation

   Synonyms:
   virtuous, righteous, ethical, noble, incorruptible, mores, ethics

   Antonyms:
   amoral, non-moral, unmoral, immoral

4. moraladjective

   a moral agent

   Antonyms:
   non-moral, amoral, immoral, unmoral

5. moraladjective

   Probable but not proved.

   a moral certainty

   Synonyms:
   virtual

   Antonyms:
   non-moral, immoral, unmoral, amoral

6. moraladjective

   a moral victory, moral support

   Antonyms:
   immoral, non-moral, amoral, unmoral

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. moral

   Synonyms:
   innocent, just, lawful, legal, meritorious, right, virtuous

   Antonyms:
   abominable, criminal, culpable, felonious, flagitious, guilty, illegal, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, sinful, unlawful, vicious, vile, wicked, wrong

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moral

   Synonyms:
   mental, ideal, intellectual, spiritual, ethical, probable, inferential, presumptive, analogous, virtuous, well-conducted

   Antonyms:
   physical, material, practical, demonstrative, mathematical, immoral, vicious

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moral, lessonadjective

   the significance of a story or event

   "the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor"

   Synonyms:
   object lesson, lesson, deterrent example, example

   Antonyms:
   degenerate, scandalous, debauched, shocking, physical, fast, dissolute, scrofulous, shameful, degraded, dissipated, immoral, profligate, riotous, libertine, disgraceful

2. moraladjective

   concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

   "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life"

   Antonyms:
   dissipated, fast, degenerate, profligate, disgraceful, shocking, debauched, riotous, physical, dissolute, shameful, immoral, scrofulous, scandalous, libertine, degraded

3. moraladjective

   psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect

   "a moral victory"; "moral support"

   Antonyms:
   shameful, dissolute, scrofulous, degraded, physical, profligate, degenerate, immoral, riotous, debauched, disgraceful, shocking, libertine, fast, dissipated, scandalous

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moraladjective

   Synonyms:
   ethical, of morals, of ethics, regarding duties, touching obligations

2. moraladjective

   Synonyms:
   accountable, bound by duty, bound to do what is right

3. moraladjective

   Synonyms:
   virtuous, good, just, upright, honest, of good principles

4. moraladjective

   Synonyms:
   probable, not demonstrative

5. moralnoun

   Synonyms:
   practical application (of a fable, &c.)

6. moralnoun

   Synonyms:
   practical lesson (of any event)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moraladjective

   Synonyms:
   ethical, virtuous, good, accountable, responsible, probable

   Antonyms:
   immoral, licentious

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "moral":

   morales, ethical, morale, morality, morals, morais, morally, non-pecuniary, legal, ethics, juridical, literary, non-material, mental, psychological, immoral, ethic, spiritual, juristic

Suggested Resources

1. Moral

   Moral vs. Morale -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Moral and Morale.

How to pronounce moral?

How to say moral in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use moral in a sentence?

1. New York:

   We do not take these actions lightly or with any sense of joy. We have both a duty and a moral obligation to protect the rule of law in our country, and we intend to do just that.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   Just because China is a big economy and because we have a big relationship doesn't mean that the challenge to our conscience, that the behavior toward dissidents, religious dissidents, all kinds of dissidents -- if we don't speak out against that in China, we lose all moral authority to speak out it in any other country that is not so large in its economy and such an important relationship to us.

3. Bob Menendez:

   Stand up for the proposition that we won't let any allies, just because they're an ally, kill, with impunity, a journalist — something that we cherish under our Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of expression under the First Amendment. And stand up for the proposition that we won't let our bombs fall upon innocent civilians and have the moral responsibility which will be a blemish on our history for years to come.

4. Eli Steele:

   I think woke comes from a larger phenomenon of white guilt. America, in the mid-'60s … [admitted] that it partook of evil and it partook of evil for four centuries— wasn’t just a quick minute, one of the consequences is that the moral authority of the American democracy was put at risk because of this history of evil that came to the forefront in the '60s. Since that time, white America understandably has been trying to reestablish its moral authority, its moral legitimacy. In order to do that, it has to find ways to demonstrate that it is not guilty any longer of those old evils.

5. American University:

   We made the argument that divestment is the moral thing to do, We want the school to put its money where its mouth is. If you're not going to source from fossil fuels, why would you invest in them?.