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 $0\xrightarrow {q} A\xrightarrow {r} B\xrightarrow {s} C\xrightarrow {t} 0$, $B$ is morally $A\times C$, 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^[1], page 1304:

     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 ${\check {B}}$ with leaves on $\Delta$.

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• morally bankrupt

Collocations

with adjectives

• morally right
• morally wrong
• morally good
• morally bad
• morally acceptable
• morally unacceptable
• morally responsible
• morally correct
• morally reprehensible
• morally repugnant
• morally corrupt
• morally justified
• morally questionable
• morally neutral
• morally objectionable
• morally permissible
• morally offensive
• morally relevant
• morally ambiguous
• morally inferior

Translations

relating to morals or ethics

• Catalan: moralment (ca)
• Galician: moralmente
• German: moralisch (de)
• Greek: ηθικά (el) (ithiká)
• Hungarian: morálisan (hu)
• Portuguese: moralmente (pt)
• Russian: мора́льно (ru) (morálʹno)
• Spanish: moralmente (es)
• Swedish: moraliskt (sv)

in a moral manner

• Catalan: moralment (ca)
• Finnish: moraalisesti (fi)
• Galician: moralmente
• German: moralisch (de)
• Greek: ηθικά (el) (ithiká)
• Hungarian: morálisan (hu)
• Polish: moralnie (pl)
• Portuguese: moralmente (pt)
• Russian: мора́льно (ru) (morálʹno)
• Spanish: moralmente (es)
• Swedish: moraliskt (sv)

See also

• ethically
• amorally

Anagrams

• Mallory