Dictionary

morally en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɒɹəli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈmɑɹəli/ (New-York-City)
• /ˈmɔɹəli/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English morali, moralli, morally, equivalent to moral + -ly.

Meanings

1. In terms of morals or ethics.
   • Seven in 10 of the hiring managers responsible for posting a ghost job this year “believe posting fake jobs is morally acceptable.” 2024 December 26, Eira May, “The ghost jobs haunting your career search”, in Stack Overflow, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2024:
   • Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with.
   • There is no pressure to leave, Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put admitted last week, claiming that investors did not “morally care” whether companies such as the Chicago-based chocolate maker did business in Russia. 2024 March 2, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, quoting Dirk Van de Put, “Western groups stay put in Russia as war fatigue dulls outcry”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
2. In keeping of requirements of morality.
   • to behave morally
3. To all intents and purposes; practically.
4. Used to clarify that a statement is made in analogy, and every detail may not be strictly true.
   • The data governing the deformations of X then consist of what we call a structure, which is a collection of slabs and walls: these are codimension-one polyhedral subsets of B, contained locally in affine hyperplanes, along with some attached data of a ring automorphism which is used in our gluing construction. This structure has an important tropical interpretation: morally, a structure can be viewed as a union of tropical trees in #92;check#123;B#125; with leaves on #92;Delta. 2011, Mark Gross, Bernd Siebert, “From Real Affine Geometry to Complex Geometry”, in Annals of Mathematics, page 1304:
   • In the short exact sequence 0#92;xrightarrow#123;q#125;A#92;xrightarrow#123;r#125;B#92;xrightarrow#123;s#125;C#92;xrightarrow#123;t#125;0, B is morally A#92;timesC, even if in reality the sequence may fail to split.

Forms

Antonyms

immorally (antonym(s) of “in keeping of requirements of morality”)

Deriveds

morally bankrupt

Relateds

amorally · ethically

Synonyms

dutifully · right-mindedly · morally · modestly · becomingly · chastely · modestly · rightly · meritoriously · decently · worthily · nobly · decently · duteously · righteously · continently · correctly · righteously · virtuously · deservingly · decorously

Translations (20)

ru мора́льно (in a moral manner) · hu morálisan (in a moral manner) · es moralmente (in a moral manner) · el ηθικά (in a moral manner) · pt moralmente (in a moral manner) · de moralisch (relating to morals or ethics) · el ηθικά (relating to morals or ethics) · hu morálisan (relating to morals or ethics) · pl moralnie (in a moral manner) · sv moraliskt (relating to morals or ethics) · de moralisch (in a moral manner) · gl moralmente (in a moral manner) · es moralmente (relating to morals or ethics) · sv moraliskt (in a moral manner) · ca moralment (in a moral manner) · ca moralment (relating to morals or ethics) · gl moralmente (relating to morals or ethics) · ru мора́льно (relating to morals or ethics) · fi moraalisesti (in a moral manner) · pt moralmente (relating to morals or ethics)