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English
Etymology
From im- + moral.
Pronunciation
Adjective
immoral (comparative more immoral, superlative most immoral)
- 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.)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:immoral
- Antonyms: moral, pure, righteous
English Standard translation of the
Bible,
Book of Hebrews 13:4 :
- Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
2020 May 27, Qingtong, “Officials in Ancient Times Blessed for Doing Good Deeds”, in Minghui:Lessons from history remind us that immoral societies don’t last very long and that the saying, “Good will be rewarded and evil will incur punishment” is a truism, reminding us of the proper way to behave—for our own benefit and that of others.
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Translations
not moral
- Armenian: անբարոյական (hy) (anbaroyakan)
- Azerbaijani: əxlaqsız
- Belarusian: амара́льны (amarálʹny)
- Bulgarian: неморален (bg) (nemoralen)
- Catalan: immoral (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不道德 (zh) (bùdàodé)
- Corsican: immurale, immurali, immorale
- Czech: nemorální (cs)
- Finnish: moraaliton (fi), siveetön (fi)
- French: immoral (fr)
- Galician: inmoral (gl)
- German: unmoralisch (de), sittenwidrig (de), verwerflich (de)
- Greek: ανήθικος (el) (aníthikos)
- Hungarian: erkölcstelen (hu)
- Irish: mímhorálta
- Italian: immorale (it), scorretto (it)
- Japanese: 不道徳な (ja) (ふどうとくな, fudōtoku na)
- Korean: 부도덕(不道德)하다 (budodeokhada), 비도덕적(非道德的) (ko) (bidodeokjeok)
- Latin: improbus
- Macedonian: немо́рален (nemóralen)
- Malayalam: അധാർമിക (ml) (adhāṟmika)
- Maori: karihika
- Meru: mwiiya
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: umoralsk
- Nynorsk: umoralsk, usedug, usedeleg
- Piedmontese: imoral
- Plautdietsch: onmoralisch
- Polish: niemoralny (pl)
- Portuguese: imoral (pt)
- Romanian: imoral (ro)
- Russian: амора́льный (ru) (amorálʹnyj), безнра́вственный (ru) (beznrávstvennyj)
- Scots: roch
- Scottish Gaelic: droch-bheusach
- Spanish: inmoral (es)
- Swahili: fasiki (sw)
- Swedish: omoralisk (sv)
- Ukrainian: амора́льний (uk) (amorálʹnyj)
- Vietnamese: vô đạo đức (vi)
- Yiddish: אוממאָראַליש (ummoralish)
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See also
Further reading
- “immoral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “immoral”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan
Etymology
From im- + moral.
Pronunciation
Adjective
immoral m or f (masculine and feminine plural immorals)
- immoral
- Antonym: moral
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Etymology
From im- + moral.
Pronunciation
Adjective
immoral (feminine immorale, masculine plural immoraux, feminine plural immorales)
- immoral
- Antonym: moral
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Descendants
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