adj. 1 ethical; right, good, pure, honest, proper, upright, honourable, decent, moralistic, respectable, high-minded, virtuous, upstanding, righteous, principled, scrupulous, incorruptible, noble, just She is one of the most moral people I have ever met 2 ethical, moralizing, moralistic Questions of right and wrong are a subject for moral philosophy It is a moral, not a legal, issue.
n. 3 lesson, homily, teaching, point, message; aphorism, maxim, precept, apophthegm or apothegm, adage, saw, proverb, epigram, motto, slogan The moral of the story is, 'Do unto others before they do unto you' 4 morals. behaviour, conduct, mores, belief, habit(s), custom(s), practice(s), principle(s), scruples, ethics, ideals, standards; probity, morality, rectitude, integrity For this appointment, we require a person of the highest morals