1 [onlybeforenoun] concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviour:
a moral issue / dilemma / question * traditional moral values * a decline in moral standards * moral philosophy * a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense * British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
2 [onlybeforenoun] based on your own sense of what is right and fair, not on legal rights or duties:
moral responsibility / duty * Governments have at least a moral obligation to answer these questions. * (BrE) The job was to call on all her diplomatic skills and moral courage (= the courage to do what you think is right).
3 following the standards of behaviour considered acceptable and right by most people:
He led a very moral life. * a very moral person
compareAMORAL, IMMORAL
4 [onlybeforenoun] able to understand the difference between right and wrong:
Children are not naturally moral beings.
IDIOMS
take, claim, seize, etc. the moral high ground to claim that your side of an argument is morally better than your opponents' side; to argue in a way that makes your side seem morally better
سۆز تۈركۈمى: noun
1 (morals) [pl.] standards or principles of good behaviour, especially in matters of sexual relationships:
Young people these days have no morals. * The play was considered an affront to public morals. * The question is one of manners rather than morals. * (old-fashioned) a woman of loose morals (= with a low standard of sexual behaviour)
2 [C] a practical lesson that a story, an event or an experience teaches you:
And the moral is that crime doesn't pay.
