MORAL
—adjective. 1 a concerned with goodness or badness of human character or behaviour, or with the distinction between right and wrong. B concerned with accepted rules and standards of human behaviour. 2 a virtuous in general conduct. B capable of moral action. 3 (of rights or duties etc.) Founded on moral not actual law. 4 associated with the psychological rather than the physical (moral courage; moral support). —none. 1 moral lesson of a fable, story, event, etc. 2 (in plural.) Moral behaviour, e.g. In sexual conduct. ? morally adverb. [latin mos mor- custom]