Moral vs. Moralistic

Moraladjective

Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

Moraladjective

Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

Moraladjective

Capable of right and wrong action.

Moraladjective

Probable but not proved.

Moraladjective

Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.

Moralnoun

(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.

Moralnoun

Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

Moralnoun

(obsolete) A morality play.

Moraladjective

Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.

Moraladjective

Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.

Moraladjective

Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.

Moraladjective

Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.

Moraladjective

Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; - opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.

Moraladjective

Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.

Moralnoun

The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; - usually in the plural.

Moralnoun

The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.

Moralnoun

A morality play. See Morality, 5.

Moralverb

To moralize.

Moralnoun

the significance of a story or event;

Moraladjective

relating to principles of right and wrong; i.e. to morals or ethics;

Moraladjective

concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles;

Moraladjective

adhering to ethical and moral principles;

Moraladjective

arising from the sense of right and wrong;

Moraladjective

psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect;

Moraladjective

based on strong likelihood or firm conviction rather than actual evidence;

Moral

A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim.

Moralisticadjective

Characteristic of or relating to a narrow-minded concern of the morals of others; self-righteous

Moralistic

narrowly and conventionally moral; - of people.

Moralistic

disposed to moralize{2}; - of people.

Moralisticadjective

narrowly and conventionally moral