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| Main Entry: | morals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal principles, standards |
| Synonyms: | behavior, conduct, customs, ethics, ideals, integrity, manners, morality, mores, beliefs, dogmas, ethic, habits, policies, scruples |
| Antonyms: | indecency, amorality, disrespectability, immorality, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | moral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lesson, proverb |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, axiom, dictum, epigram, gnome, maxim, meaning, message, motto, point, precept, rule, saying, sermon, significance, truism, apophthegm, moralism, saw |
| Notes: | moral (noun) means the lesson or principle of a story or event - (adjective) relating to lessons or principles of right and wrong; morale is a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose or the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conscience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral sense |
| Synonyms: | censor, compunction, demur, duty, inner voice, morals, shame, principles, qualms, right and wrong, scruples, small voice, squeam, still small voice, superego |
| Antonyms: | immorality |
| Main Entry: | morality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics, honesty |
| Synonyms: | chastity, conduct, decency, gentleness, godliness, goodness, honor, ideals, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtue, ethicality, ethicalness, good habits, incorruptibility, incorruption, principles, rightness, saintliness, standards, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | corruption, dishonesty, evil, amorality, badness, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | mores |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traditional customs |
| Synonyms: | attitude, etiquette, manners, morals, protocol, codes, established ways, formalities, policies, practices, principles, rites, rituals, routines, rules, social conduct, standards, way of life |
| Main Entry: | values |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | principles |
| Synonyms: | attitude, character, code, conduct, conscience, ethics, ideals, integrity, morals, mores, beliefs, scruples, sense of duty, sense of honor, standards |
| Main Entry: | moral code |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value system |
| Synonyms: | code of conduct, ideology, moral philosophy, morality, morals, values, ethicalness, good morals, principles, standards |
| Main Entry: | value judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assessment about values |
| Synonyms: | bias, ethics, intuition, morals, valuation, evaluative criticism, stocktaking, subjective evaluation |
| Main Entry: | standard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guideline, principle |
| Synonyms: | archetype, average, axiom, barometer, beau ideal, belief, benchmark, canon, code, criterion, ethics, example, exemplar, fundamental, gauge, grade, guide, ideal, ideals, law, mean, measure, median, mirror, model, morals, norm, par, paradigm, pattern, requirement, rule, rule of thumb*, sample, specification, test, touchstone, type, yardstick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | honor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | character, chastity, courage, decency, fairness, goodness, honesty, innocence, modesty, morality, morals, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, honestness, incorruption, incorruptness, principles, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | blemish, disgrace, dishonor, stigma, ill repute |
| Main Entry: | allegory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect representation, storytelling |
| Synonyms: | apologue, emblem, fable, figuration, moral, myth, parable, story, symbol, symbolism, tale, symbolization, typification |
| Main Entry: | aphorism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saying expressing a belief, often true |
| Synonyms: | adage, apothegm, axiom, dictum, maxim, moral, precept, proverb, rule, saying, truism, saw |
| Main Entry: | axiom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | principle |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, apothegm, device, dictum, fundamental, law, maxim, moral, postulate, precept, proposition, proverb, saying, theorem, truism, truth |
| Antonyms: | absurdity, ambiguity, foolishness, nonsense, paradox |
| Main Entry: | cautionary tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of advice |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advisory, caveat, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag*, red flag, sign of things to come*, sign of things to come, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise, a few words of wisdom, caution light, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, wake-up call, wake-up call |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dictum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saying; proverb |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, gnome, maxim, moral, motto, precept, rule, truism, brocard, saw |
| Main Entry: | lesson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | helpful example, communication |
| Synonyms: | admonition, censure, deterrent, exemplar, message, model, moral, notice, precept, punishment, rebuke, reprimand, reproof, scolding, warning, chiding, helpful word, noble action |
| Main Entry: | maxim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saying |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, axiom, belief, byword, canon, commonplace, device, dictum, epithet, formula, law, moral, motto, platitude, precept, prescript, proverb, rule, tenet, theorem, truism, apophthegm, brocard, saw |
| Main Entry: | message |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, idea |
| Synonyms: | import, moral, point, purport, sense, significance, theme, understanding, acceptation, intendment, significancy, signification |
| Main Entry: | proverb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saying referring to common fact, knowledge |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, axiom, byword, catch phrase, dictum, epigram, gnome, maxim, moral, motto, platitude, precept, repartee, text, truism, witticism, word, apophthegm, daffodil, folk wisdom, saw |
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