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单词 moral
释义

moral

See also: Moral, morál, and morâl

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒɹəl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmoɹəl/
    • Audio (US)(file)
    • (East Coast) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɒɹəl, -ɔːɹəl
  • (without the horse–hoarse merger, US, Scotland) /ˈmɔrəl/ ((Early Modern English) /ˈmɒɹ-/)

Adjective

moral (comparative more moral, superlative most moral)

  1. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
    moral judgments;  a moral poem
    a moral obligation
    • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
      She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
  2. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
    • 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 222716698:
      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.
    a moral action
  3. Capable of right and wrong action.
    a moral agent
  4. Probable but not proved.
    a moral certainty
  5. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
    a moral victory;  moral support

Synonyms

  • (conforming to a standard of right behaviour): ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous
  • (probable but not proved): virtual

Antonyms

  • immoral, unethical, corrupt, unscrupulous, amoral, non-moral, pseudomoral, unmoral

Derived terms

  • medicomoral
  • moral compass
  • moral dilemma
  • moral high ground
  • moral imperative
  • moral leper
  • Moral Majority
  • moral minimum
Terms etymologically related to moral
  • morale
  • morality
  • moralize
  • morals
  • mores

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Noun

moral (plural morals)

  1. (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
    The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
    • 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)
      We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
    a candidate with strong morals
  3. (obsolete) A morality play.
  4. (slang, dated) A moral certainty.
  5. (slang, dated) An exact counterpart.

Synonyms

  • (moral practices or teachings): ethics, mores

Hyponyms

  • golden rule

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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To moralize.

Further reading

  • moral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • moral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • moral at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Marlo, molar, romal

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin mōrālis.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /moˈɾal/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /muˈɾal/

Adjective

moral (masculine and feminine plural morals)

  1. moral (relating to right and wrong)
  2. moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
    Antonyms: immoral, amoral

Derived terms

  • amoral
  • immoral
  • moralisme
  • moralment
  • moralitat

Noun

moral f (plural morals)

  1. morals
  2. morale

Further reading

  • “moral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “moral”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
  • “moral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “moral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Loan from French morale via German Moral

Noun

moral c

  1. morale, motivation (capacity to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
  2. moral, moral practices, conduct
    streng, victoriansk moral
    strict, Victorian moral
  3. a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)
    Synonym: morale

Derived terms

  • moralisere
  • moralsk
  • moralisme
  • moralist
  • umoral
  • seksualmoral

See also

  • etik
  • karakter
  • sæd
  • sædelighed
  • opførsel

French

Etymology

From Middle French moral, from Old French moral, borrowed from Latin moralis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ.ʁal/
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Noun

moral m (plural moraux)

  1. morale, optimism

Adjective

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

  1. moral

Derived terms

  • amoral
  • avoir le moral en berne
  • avoir le moral à zéro
  • avoir le moral dans les chaussettes
  • conte moral
  • immoral
  • morale
  • moralisme
  • moraliste
  • moralité
  • personne morale
  • remonter le moral
  • mœurs

Further reading

  • “moral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin mōrālis.

Adjective

moral m or f (plural morais)

  1. moral (relating to right and wrong)
  2. moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
    Antonyms: inmoral, amoral
  • moralidade

Noun

moral f (plural morais)

  1. moral (moral practices or teachings)
  2. morale

Further reading

  • “moral” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ladin

Adjective

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

  1. moral

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mōrālis.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /moˈɾaw/ [moˈɾaʊ̯]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /muˈɾal/ [muˈɾaɫ]

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Homophone: mural (Portugal)
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ral

Adjective

moral m or f (plural morais)

  1. moral

Derived terms

  • moralmente

Noun

moral f (plural morais)

  1. a set of moral values, (collectively) principles, morality;
  2. moral philosophy;
  3. (informal) authority, capacity or right to impose on or influence another;
    1. balls (boldness), attitude of authority;
    2. right to have a say on a matter, to judge someone etc., moral high ground;
  • moralidade

Noun

moral m (plural morais)

  1. morale

Further reading

  • “moral” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin moralis or French moral.

Adjective

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

  1. moral

Declension
Declension of moral
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite moral morală morali morale
definite moralul morala moralii moralele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite moral morale morali morale
definite moralului moralei moralilor moralelor

Noun

moral n (plural morale)

  1. morale, optimism

Declension

Declension of moral
singularplural
indefinite articulationdefinite articulationindefinite articulationdefinite articulation
nominative/accusative(un) moralmoralul(niște) moralemoralele
genitive/dative(unui) moralmoralului(unor) moralemoralelor
vocativemoralulemoralelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǒraːl/
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ral

Noun

mòrāl m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀ра̄л)

  1. (uncountable) moral

Declension

Declension of moral
singular
nominativemòrāl
genitivemorála
dativemoralu
accusativemoral
vocativemoralu
locativemoralu
instrumentalmoralom

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈɾal/ [moˈɾal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: mo‧ral

Etymology 1

From Latin mōrālis.

Adjective

moral (plural morales)

  1. moral (relating to right and wrong)
  2. moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
    Antonyms: inmoral, amoral
Derived terms
  • amoral
  • antimoral
  • inmoral
  • moralmente
  • pánico moral
  • moralidad

Noun

moral f (plural morales)

  1. morals, standard (modes of conduct)
  2. morale (the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
Hyponyms
  • doble moral
Derived terms
  • moraleja
  • moralismo
  • moralista
  • moralizar

See also

  • tener más moral que el Alcoyano (Spain, informal)

Etymology 2

mora +‎ -al

Noun

moral m (plural morales)

  1. mulberry tree

Further reading

  • “moral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

moral c

  1. morality
    etik och moral
    ethics and morality
    Antonym: omoral (“immorality”)
  2. morals
    De saknar helt moral
    They completely lack morals
  3. morale
    truppernas låga moral
    the low morale of the troops
  4. a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)
    Synonym: (more idiomatic) sensmoral

Declension

Declension of moral 
SingularPlural
IndefiniteDefiniteIndefiniteDefinite
Nominativemoralmoralenmoralermoralerna
Genitivemoralsmoralensmoralersmoralernas
  • moralisera
  • moralisk
  • moralism
  • moralist
  • moralpanik
  • moraltant
  • omoral

See also

  • etik
  • karaktär
  • sed
  • sedelärande
  • sedlighet
  • uppförande

References

  • moral in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
  • moral in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • lamor

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish moral.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mo‧ral
  • IPA(key): /moˈɾal/, [moˈɾal]

Adjective

morál (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇᜎ᜔)

  1. moral

Noun

morál (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇᜎ᜔)

  1. morals

Derived terms

  • moralidad

References

  • “moral”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French morale.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo.ɾal/

Noun

moral (definite accusative morali, plural moraller)

  1. morale, good spirits
    Bu başarı morallerini yükseltti. ― This success boosted their morale.
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