| Main Entry: | morality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics, honesty |
Synonyms: |
chastity, conduct, decency, ethicality, ethicalness, gentleness, godliness, good habits, goodness, honor, ideals, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, principles, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, saintliness, standards, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
Antonyms: |
amorality, badness, corruption, dishonesty, evil, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | chastity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celibacy, purity |
Synonyms: |
abstemiousness, abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, decency, demureness, devotion, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, modesty, monogamy, morality, naiveté, restraint, singleness, sinlessness, spotlessness, temperance, uprightness, virginity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
dirtiness, fornication |
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
Synonyms: |
address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
lowliness |
| Main Entry: | ethics/ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
Synonyms: |
belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, right and wrong, rules of conduct, standard, standards, the Golden Rule |
Antonyms: |
corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
Synonyms: |
advantage, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, ethicality, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, graciousness, honesty, honor, humaneness, integrity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, obligingness, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, wholesomeness, worth |
Antonyms: |
evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | greatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nobleness of character; eminence |
Synonyms: |
celebrity, chivalry, dignity, distinction, fame, generosity, glory, grandeur, heroism, high-mindedness, idealism, illustriousness, importance, loftiness, magnanimity, majesty, merit, morality, nobility, note, prominence, renown, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
Synonyms: |
bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, veracity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, lying, treachery |
| Main Entry: | honor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
Synonyms: |
character, chastity, courage, decency, fairness, goodness, honestness, honesty, incorruption, incorruptness, innocence, modesty, morality, morals, principles, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
blemish, disgrace, dishonor, ill repute, stigma |
| Main Entry: | morals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal principles, standards |
Synonyms: |
behavior, beliefs, conduct, customs, dogmas, ethic, ethics, habits, ideals, integrity, manners, morality, mores, policies, scruples |
Antonyms: |
amorality, disrespectability, immorality, indecency, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | probity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fairness, honesty |
Synonyms: |
equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, integrity, justice, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, sincerity, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, worth |
Antonyms: |
deceit, dishonesty, unfairness |