Synonyms for moral
ˈmɔr əl, ˈmɒr-moral

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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

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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

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1. moral

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

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

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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

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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)

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1. moraladjective

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

   Antonyms:
   immoral, licentious

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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

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1. Frederick Douglas:

   Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

2. Paul Ryan:

   I do believe that (Trump) messed up in his comments on Tuesday, when it sounded like a moral equivocation, or at the very least moral ambiguity, when we need extreme moral clarity.

3. John W. Gardner:

   America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

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. Rita Mae Brown:

   Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.