morally

English

Etymology

moral +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹəli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒɹəli/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹəli/

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• Hyphenation: mor‧al‧ly

Adverb

morally (comparative more morally, superlative most morally)

1. In terms of morals or ethics.

   Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with.

   • 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, page 11:

     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.

2. In keeping of requirements of morality.

   to behave morally

3. To all intents and purposes; practically.
4. (mathematics) Used to clarify that a statement is made in analogy, and every detail may not be strictly true.

   In the short exact sequence ${\displaystyle 0\xrightarrow {q} A\xrightarrow {r} B\xrightarrow {s} C\xrightarrow {t} 0}$, ${\displaystyle B}$ is morally ${\displaystyle A\times C}$, even if in reality the sequence may fail to split.

   • 2011, Mark Gross, Bernd Siebert, “From Real Affine Geometry to Complex Geometry”, in Annals of Mathematics‎, page 1304:

     The data governing the deformations of ${\displaystyle X}$ then consist of what we call a structure, which is a collection of slabs and walls: these are codimension-one polyhedral subsets of ${\displaystyle B}$, 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 ${\displaystyle {\check {B}}}$ with leaves on ${\displaystyle \Delta }$.

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• morally bankrupt

Collocations

Translations

See also

• ethically
• amorally

Anagrams

• Mallory