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unmoral

[ uhn-mawr-uhl, -mor- ]

adjective

  1. neither moral nor immoral; amoral; nonmoral:

    Nature is unmoral.



unmoral

/ ʌnˈmɒrəl; ˌʌnməˈrælɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. outside morality; amoral


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Derived Forms

  • unˈmorally, adverb
  • unmorality, noun

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Other Words From

  • un·mo·ral·i·ty [uhn-m, uh, -, ral, -i-tee, -maw-], noun
  • un·moral·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of unmoral1

First recorded in 1835–45; un- 1 + moral

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Synonym Study

See immoral.

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Example Sentences

We do not condemn her because she loves ease, which is a motive common to all men and therefore unmoral, not immoral.

I was twenty, and she a mad, wanton creature, wonderful and unmoral and filled with life to the brim.

If freedom is a fiction the universe is not only unmoral, but immoral.

I guess I'm just fundamentally unmoral myself, he thought, and began reading the news clips.

To attack Whitman on the score of morality is unjustifiable; his sex poems are simply unmoral.

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