moral

moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)

ca-adj

moral m or f (masculine and feminine plural morals)


moral

morale, motivation (capacity to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)

streng, victoriansk moral

Loan from French morale via German Moral


moral

moral judgments; a moral poem

a moral obligation

She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

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

a moral action

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

a moral agent

a moral certainty

a moral victory; moral support

Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.

en-adj

moral (comparative more moral, superlative most moral)

more moral (comparative)
most moral (superlative)

incorruptible

conforming to a standard of right behaviour

բարոյական

conforming to a standard of right behavior

moralisk

positively affecting the mind, confidence or will

From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”)
(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).


moral

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

We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.

1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)

(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.

a candidate with strong morals

(chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

(of a media) A depiction of good or heroic actions.

عِظَة

the moral significance or practical lesson


moral

en-verb

moral (third-person singular simple present morals, present participle moraling or moralling, simple past and past participle moraled or moralled)

morals (present singular third-person)
moraling (participle present)
moralling (participle present)
moraled (participle past)
moraled (past)
moralled (participle past)
moralled (past)


moral

Inherited from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, borrowed from Latin morālis.


moral

fr-adj

moral (feminine morale, masculine plural moraux, feminine plural morales)

morale (feminine)
moraux (masculine plural)
morales (feminine plural)


moral

(of a narrative) the ethical significance or practical lesson

moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct

a conviction so justifiable that one is morally entitled to act on it: moral certainty

morale (the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others)

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch moraal (“moral”), from Middle French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”).


moral

lld-adj

moral m (feminine singular morala, masculine plural morai, feminine plural morales)

morala (feminine singular)
morai (masculine plural)
morales (feminine plural)


moral

a set of moral values, (collectively) principles, morality;

(informal) authority, capacity or right to impose on or influence another;

balls (boldness), attitude of authority;

right to have a say on a matter, to judge someone etc., moral high ground;


moral

ro-adj

moral m or n (feminine singular morală, masculine plural morali, feminine and neuter plural morale)

morală (feminine singular)
morali (masculine plural)
morale (feminine neuter plural)
moral (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
morală (feminine indefinite singular)
morali (indefinite masculine singular)
morale (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
moralul (definite masculine neuter singular)
morala (definite feminine singular)
moralii (definite masculine singular)
moralele (definite feminine neuter plural)
morale (feminine indefinite singular)
moralului (definite masculine neuter singular)
moralei (definite feminine singular)
moralilor (definite masculine singular)
moralelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from Latin moralis or French moral.


moral

morale (plural)
moral (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
moralul (accusative definite nominative singular)
morale (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
moralele (accusative definite nominative plural)
moral (indefinite singular)
moralului (definite singular)
morale (indefinite singular)
moralelor (definite plural)
moralule (singular vocative)
moralelor (vocative)


moral

mòrāl (canonical masculine)
мо̀ра̄л (Cyrillic)
mòrāl (nominative singular)
morála (genitive singular)
moralu (dative singular)
moral (accusative singular)
moralu (singular vocative)
moralu (locative singular)
moralom (instrumental singular)


moral

es-adj

moral m or f (masculine and feminine plural morales)


moral

morale (the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)


moral

etik och moral

De saknar helt moral

truppernas låga moral

moral (indefinite nominative singular)
morals (genitive indefinite singular)
moralen (definite nominative singular)
moralens (definite genitive singular)
moraler (indefinite nominative plural)
moralers (genitive indefinite plural)
moralerna (definite nominative plural)
moralernas (definite genitive plural)

Loan from French morale via German Moral, used in Swedish in Then Swänska Argus (1730s).


moral

Bu başarı morallerini yükseltti.

head

moral (definite accusative morali, plural moraller)

morali (accusative definite)
moraller (plural)