moral

Definition

  • noun: a lesson that is learned from a story or an experience
  • noun: the moral
  • adjective: concerning or relating to what is right and wrong in human behavior
  • adjective: of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior
  • synonyms: virtuous, conduct, behavior

Examples

  • a person with/of 'loose morals' [=a person whose behavior and especially whose sexual behavior is considered morally wrong by some people]

  • Although they lost, the minority claimed the vote as a 'moral victory' since they had won the support of so many former opponents.

  • He's a man with strong 'moral' convictions. [=a man who believes strongly that some things are right and others are wrong]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) lead to many casualties. Among them romanians, just like you. Explain it to me. Your highness, from this point i find myself in a moral impossibility... and... What? Moral impossibility? What's with those words? I don't know such words! It means that you cheat? You suffer doing your duty (..)
    1965 Forest of the Hanged