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immoral

  • /ɪˈmɒɹəl/ UK
  • /ɪˈmɔɹəl/ US

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adjective more immoral · most immoral

  1. 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.) Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

    Similar: aberrant, corrupt, corrupted, depraved, lost, dirty-handed, dissolute, effete, errant, questionable, indecent, indecorous · Opposite: moral, pure, righteous

Opposite: decent, modest, moral, proper, seemly, virtuous

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Closest in meaning: unethical, dishonorable, dishonourable, unprincipled, bad, wrong, evil, reprobate, disgraceful, shameful, depraved, scandalous, perverted, wicked, degenerate, degraded

adjective

Opposite: decent, modest, moral, proper, seemly, virtuous

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adj not moral

Españolinmoral
한국어부도덕(不道德)하다 budodeokhada, 비도덕적 bidodeokjeok
日本語不道徳な fudōtoku na
中文不道德 bùdàodé
हिन्दीअनैतिक anaitik, व्यभिचारी vyabhicārī
Kiswahilifasiki
Portuguêsimoral
Françaisimmoral
Deutschunmoralisch, sittenwidrig, verwerflich
Italianoimmorale, scorretto
Ελληνικάανήθικος aníthikos
Românăimoral
Русскийамора́льный amorálʹnyj, безнра́вственный beznrávstvennyj
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@misc{immoral_2026,
  title = {immoral},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/immoral},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}