moral

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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adjective, noun
+ adjective
1 [only before noun] concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviour: a moral issue / dilemma / question + traditional moral values + a decline in moral standards + moral philosophy + a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense + British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
2 [only before noun] based on your own sense of what is right and fair, not on legal rights or duties: moral responsibility / duty + Governments have at least a moral obligation to answer these questions. + (BrE) The job was to call on all her diplomatic skills and moral courage (= the courage to do what you think is right).
3 following the standards of behaviour considered acceptable and right by most people: He led a very moral life. + a very moral person
Compare: AMORAL, IMMORAL
4 [only before noun] able to understand the difference between right and wrong: Children are not naturally moral beings.
Idioms: take, claim, seize, etc. the moral high ground to claim that your side of an argument is morally better than your opponents' side; to argue in a way that makes your side seem morally better
+ noun
1 (morals) [pl.] standards or principles of good behaviour, especially in matters of sexual relationships: Young people these days have no morals. + The play was considered an affront to public morals. + The question is one of manners rather than morals. + (old-fashioned) a woman of loose morals (= with a low standard of sexual behaviour)
2 [C] a practical lesson that a story, an event or an experience teaches you: And the moral is that crime doesn't pay.

Thesaurus dictionary

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adj.

1 ethical; right, good, pure, honest, proper, upright, honourable, decent, moralistic, respectable, high-minded, virtuous, upstanding, righteous, principled, scrupulous, incorruptible, noble, just:

She is one of the most moral people I have ever met.

2 ethical, moralizing, moralistic:

Questions of right and wrong are a subject for moral philosophy. It is a moral, not a legal, issue.

n.

3 lesson, homily, teaching, point, message; aphorism, maxim, precept, apophthegm or apothegm, adage, saw, proverb, epigram, motto, slogan:

The moral of the story is, 'Do unto others before they do unto you'

4 morals. behaviour, conduct, mores, belief, habit(s), custom(s), practice(s), principle(s), scruples, ethics, ideals, standards; probity, morality, rectitude, integrity:

For this appointment, we require a person of the highest morals.

morale

n.

dedication, spirit(s), unity, esprit de corps, disposition, attitude, confidence, self-confidence, self-esteem:

The team's morale improved after they won their first game in five weeks.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ practical lesson

ADJ.

clear

VERB + MORAL

draw

There are clear morals to be drawn from the failure of these companies.

PREP.

~ to

There is a clear moral to all this.

² morals: principles

ADJ.

good, strict | doubtful, loose

Women who went to pubs alone would sometimes be assumed to have loose morals.

| sexual | public | Christian

VERB + MORAL

have

He has absolutely no morals, that man!

| instil

She had tried her best to instil morals into her daughters.

| protect | corrupt

PHRASES

a decline in morals

Concise English dictionary

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morals'mɔrəl /'mɒ-
noun
+the significance of a story or event
adj.
+relating to principles of right and wrong; i.e. to morals or ethics
+concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
+adhering to ethical and moral principles
+arising from the sense of right and wrong
+psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect

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