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say it: MAW-ruhl
moral is an adjective and noun meaning "concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles". It is pronounced /ˈmɔɹəl/ — MAW-ruhl. It carries 3 recorded senses.
concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
“moral sense”
“a moral scrutiny”
“a moral lesson”
“a moral quandary”
“moral convictions”
“a moral life”
psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect
“a moral victory”
“moral support”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moral come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.