ethics

Other forms of ethics

plural

ethicses·

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 ethics

What does ethics mean?

ethics means "motivation based on ideas of right and wrong". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ethics?

ethics has 2 syllables: et-hics. The stress falls on "et". In IPA it is /ˈɛθɪks/.

What is another word for ethics?

Close synonyms include ethical motive, morals, morality, moral philosophy. 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 ethics a common word?

ethics 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.

What rhymes with ethics?

1 word rhymes with ethics. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.