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- Dictionaryimmoral/ɪˈmɒrəl/
adjective
- 1. not conforming to accepted standards of morality: "unseemly and immoral behaviour"
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IMMORAL definition: 1. morally wrong, or outside society's standards of acceptable, honest, and moral behaviour: 2…. Learn more.
The meaning of IMMORAL is not moral; broadly : conflicting with generally or traditionally held moral principles. How to use immoral in a sentence.
Immoral means not moral and connotes evil or licentious behavior. Amoral, nonmoral, and unmoral, virtually synonymous although the first is by far the most common form, mean utterly lacking in morals (either good or bad), neither moral nor immoral.
If you describe someone or their behaviour as immoral, you believe that their behaviour is morally wrong.
Definition of immoral adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
IMMORAL meaning: 1. morally wrong, or outside society's standards of acceptable, honest, and moral behaviour: 2…. Learn more.
Use the adjective immoral to describe a person, group, or situation that intentionally goes against accepted ideas of what is right, like a government that attacks its own people, or a friend who steals your favorite spatula.
adj. 1. transgressing accepted moral rules; corrupt. 2. sexually dissolute; profligate or promiscuous. 3. unscrupulous or unethical: immoral trading. 4. tending to corrupt or resulting from corruption: an immoral film; immoral earnings. imˈmorally adv.
adjective. uk / ɪˈmɒr ə l / us. Add to word list. B2. morally wrong: immoral behaviour. immorality. noun [ U ] uk / ˌɪməˈræləti / us. (Definition of immoral from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of immoral. in Chinese (Traditional) 不道德的，道德敗壞的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 不道德的，道德败坏的… See more.
Jun 2, 2024 · Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or " good morals "; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)
