MORAL

Moral

A moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim.

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moral

Noun

  1. The ethical significance or practical lesson.
    The moral of the is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
  2. Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
  3. A morality play.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
  2. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
  3. Capable of right and wrong action.
  4. Probable but not proved.
  5. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.


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