moral

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character.
• adjective Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior.
• adjective Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous.
• adjective Arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong.
• adjective Having psychological rather than physical or tangible effects.
• adjective Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence.
• noun The lesson or principle contained in or taught by a fable, a story, or an event.
• noun A concisely expressed precept or general truth; a maxim.
• noun Rules or habits of conduct, especially of sexual conduct, with reference to standards of right and wrong.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of or pertaining to rules of right conduct; concerning the distinction of right from wrong; ethical. In this sense moral is opposed to non-moral, which denotes the absence of ethical distinctions.
• In accord with, or controlled by, the rules of right conduct: opposed to immoral. In this sense moral is often used specifically of conduct in the sexual relation.
• In a special sense, relating to the private and social duties of men as distinct from civil responsibilities: specifically so used in the Hegelian philosophy.
• Connected with the perception of right and wrong in conduct, especially when this is regarded as an innate power of the mind; connected with or pertaining to the conscience. See moral sense, moral law, below.
• Capable of distinguishing between right and wrong; hence, bound to conform to what is right; subject, to a principle of duty; accountable.
• Depending upon considerations of what generally occurs; resting upon grounds of probability: opposed to demonstrative: as, moral evidence; moral arguments. See moral certainty, under certainty.
• Of or pertaining to morals.
• Having a moral; emblematical; allegorical; symbolical.
• Pertaining to the mind; mental: opposed to physical.
• Pertaining to the will, or conative element of the soul, as distinguished from the intellect or cognitive part. This refers to the usual pre-Kantian division of the soul.
• Moralizing.
• See law.
• Ethics; the science of morality.
• noun Morality; the doctrine or practice of the duties of life.
• noun plural Conduct; behavior; course of life in regard to right and wrong; specifically, sexual conduct: as, a man of good morals.
• noun Moral philosophy; ethics.
• noun The doctrine inculcated by a fable, apologue, or fiction; the practical lesson which anything is designed to teach; hence, intent; meaning.
• noun An emblem, personification, or allegory; especially, an allegorical drama. See morality. 6.
• noun A certainty.
• noun An exact likeness; a counterpart.
• noun Synonyms See morality.
• noun See inference.
• To moralize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To moralize.
• adjective 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.
• adjective Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just. Used sometimes in distinction from religious.
• adjective Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
• adjective Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner. Sometimes opposed to material and physical.
• adjective Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable
• adjective Serving to teach or convey a moral
• adjective a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong.
• adjective a very high degree or probability, although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in the affairs of life.
• adjective insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible.
• adjective the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded.
• adjective [Obs.] an allegorical play; a morality.
• adjective the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law.
• adjective theology applied to morals; practical theology; casuistry.
• noun The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
• noun 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.
• noun A morality play. See Morality, 5.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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