ethic

Other forms of ethic

plural

ethics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ethic

What does ethic mean?

ethic means "the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ethic?

ethic has 2 syllables: et-hic. The stress falls on "et". In IPA it is /ˈɛθɪk/.

What is another word for ethic?

Close synonyms include moral principle, value-system, value orientation, ethical code. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ethic a common word?

ethic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.