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amoral

[ey-mawr-uhl, a-mawr-, ey-mor-, a-mor-]

adjective

  1. not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.

  2. having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong.

    a completely amoral person.



amoral

/ eɪˈmɒrəl, ˌeɪmɒˈrælɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. having no moral quality; nonmoral

  2. without moral standards or principles

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Usage

Amoral is often wrongly used where immoral is meant. Immoral is properly used to talk about the breaking of moral rules, amoral about people who have no moral code or about places or situations where moral considerations do not apply
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • amoralism noun
  • amorality noun
  • amorally adverb
  • ˈǰ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of amoral1

First recorded in 1880–85; a- 6 + moral
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Synonym Study

See immoral.
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Example Sentences

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Don’t misunderstand my tone as laudatory: In 17-plus years as prime minister across four decades, Netanyahu has continually outdone himself in viciousness, criminal depravity and shamelessly immoral or amoral statecraft.

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When an amoral American president is proudly tanking his country’s international reputation, a centrist American pope’s rebuke could be politically deleterious.

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But to many others, their inflammatory political messages make them dangerous and amoral.

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Those ideas all came from a simple thesis: that capitalism is amoral and will gobble up anything it’s allowed to gobble up.

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In “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” he probes what viewers see as ethical food versus amoral, offensive cuisine.

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