Moralとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒɹəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmoɹəl/
  • (East Coast) IPA: /ˈmɑɹəl/
• 韻: -ɒɹəl

形容詞

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:

     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.

   a moral action

   • 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:

     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.

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

同意語

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

反意語

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

等位語

• ethical

名詞

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. (of a media) A depiction of good or heroic actions.
4. (obsolete) A morality play.
5. (slang, dated) A moral certainty.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 22:

     "You'd better not collar anything now, because it's a moral that old Antonio would nip out behind one of those cases."

6. (slang, dated) An exact counterpart.

同意語

• (moral practices or teachings): ethics, mores
• (a depiction of good or heroic actions): message

下位語

• golden rule

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) To moralize.

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Further reading

• “moral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “moral”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “moral”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Marlo, molar, romal