moral principle

Questions about moral principle

What does moral principle mean?

moral principle 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.

What is another word for moral principle?

Close synonyms include ethic, value-system, value orientation. 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 moral principle a common word?

moral principle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.