Moral

['mɒr(ə)l] or ['mɔrəl]

解释:

(noun.) the significance of a story or event; 'the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor'.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect; 'a moral victory'; 'moral support' .

杰里手打--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

贝丽尔整理

同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Ethical, of morals, of ethics, regarding duties, touching obligations.[2]. Accountable, bound by duty, bound to do what is right.[3]. Virtuous, good, just, upright, honest, of good principles.[4]. Probable, not demonstrative.

n. [1]. Practical application (of a fable, &c.).[2]. Practical lesson (of any event).

手打:萨拜娜

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Mental, ideal, intellectual, spiritual, ethical, probable, inferential,presumptive, analogous, virtuous, well-conducted

ANT:Physical, material, practical, demonstrative, mathematical, immoral, vicious

巴尔托迪编辑

解释:

adj. of or belonging to the manners or conduct of men: conformed to right ethical virtuous: capable of knowing right and wrong: subject to the moral law: instructing with regard to morals: supported by evidence of reason or probability—opp. to Demonstrative: belonging to the mind or to the will: (Shak.) moralising.—n. in pl. manners: the doctrine or practice of the duties of life: moral philosophy or ethics: conduct esp. sexual conduct: in sing. the practical lesson given by anything: an emblem or allegory: (slang) a certainty an exact counterpart.—v.i. to moralise.—ns. Mor′aler (Shak.) a moraliser; Moralisā′tion act of moralising explanation in a moral sense.—v.t. Mor′alise to apply to a moral purpose: to explain in a moral sense.—v.i. to speak or write on moral subjects: to make moral reflections.—ns. Mor′aliser; Mor′alism a moral maxim; moral counsel: morality as distinct from religion; Mor′alist one who teaches morals or who practises moral duties: a merely moral as distinguished from a religious man: one who prides himself on his morality.—adj. Moralist′ic.—n. Moral′ity quality of being moral: that in an action which renders it right or wrong: the practice of moral duties apart from religion: virtue: the doctrine which treats of actions as being right or wrong: ethics: a kind of drama which grew out of mysteries and miracle-plays and continued in fashion till Elizabeth's time in which allegorical representations of the virtues and vices were introduced as dramatis person.—adv. Mor′ally in a moral manner: uprightly: to all intents and purposes practically.—Moral agent one who acts under a knowledge of right and wrong; Moral certainty a likelihood so great as to be safely acted on although not capable of being certainly proved; Moral defeat (see Moral victory); Moral faculty (see Moral sense); Moral law a law or rules for life and conduct founded on what is right and wrong: the law of conscience; Moral philosophy the science which treats of the qualities of actions as being right or wrong and the duty of mankind with regard to such actions; Moral sense that power of the mind which knows or judges actions to be right or wrong and determines conduct accordingly; Moral theology ethics treated with reference to a divine source; Moral victory a defeat in appearance but in some important sense a real victory.

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