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Definition: Immoral |
ImmoralAdjective1. Violating principles of right and wrong. 2. Not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds". 3. Morally unprincipled; "immoral behavior". 4. Characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life". 5. Marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "immoral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
Etymology: Immoral \Im*mor"al\, adjective. [Prefix im- not moral: compare to the French expression immoral.]. (references) |
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Satire | IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences -- then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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The word "immoral" is normally used to describe persons or actions. In a broader sense it can be applied to groups or corporate bodies, beliefs, religions, and works of art. To say that some act is immoral is to say that violates some moral laws, norms or standards.See:
- Morality
- Amorality
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A morality is a complex of concepts and beliefs by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. Oftentimes, these concepts and beliefs are generalized and codified in a culture or group, and thus serve to regulate the behaviour of its members.
In general
Views on morality have varied greatly over time, and from culture to culture. Usually, a morality applies to fields in which the choices made by individuals express an intention relative to other individuals (even non-members of the society). Thus, there exists an academic dispute about whether morality can exist only in the presence of a society (meaning a plurality of few individuals), or also in a hypothetical individual with no relationships with others.
A concept of morality may tend toward any of the possible directions in a given field, and moralities exist that recommend heavy restrictions on behaviours, as well as moralities that recommend totally free self-determination, as well as a variety of intermediate positions.
The efficacy of a morality depends on the social position and political representativeness of the group that espouses it, and on its relationship with the norms of the related society. A morality is put into effect through its influence on the society's general rules and formal codes—especially penal codes and the determination of juridicially correct conduct. The fields in which the influence of morality is most commonly appreciated are sex-related matters, financial and professional conduct (with the notable example of deontology), and human relationships in general.
A morality can be suggested by many sources. Very often, an individual's morality is influenced, to large degree, by religion or theology, but other sources are also often cited, such as objective (natural) reality or political reality.
Many groups may, effectively, be distinguished by their morality, as a fundamental characteristic; in some cases, the common view on morality can be a basic factor of aggregation, as it happens in developed countries where the giantism of social structures causes (for other reasons) the need of building inside them sub-groups, identified by a common belief or view upon certain matters. This process, indeed, shows a similarity with the process of creation of political regroupements, and in fact sometimes the two fields (not always reciprocally) interfere.
On a subjective level, morality is a system of personal ethical conduct that the individual imposes on himself or herself. It is more concerned with individual choices, as a personal effect of free will, rather than with dispute resolution or conflict, and does not seem to imply a relationship with other individuals or groups. This subjective self-regulation can also sometimes be derived from religion or theology, but is also often seen as totally personal, unsharable, intuitive, creative and aesthetic (a "moral core").
The nature of morals themselves is often at issue between those who advocate shared morality or intuitive morality. They may be seen as rules, or simply as examples drawn from stories. Most sources of morality, e.g. the Bible, include both, although it is usually clear that the rules drawn in the story itself are more important than those observed within it as examples.
Rebellion against morality
Moralities often include rules and regulations that do not have obvious reasons for existing, i.e., no immediate, immensely harmful results of transgression are apparent. This is so because the harmful effects of such actions are largely indirect, but real nonetheless. Thus, the need for the particular aspect of morality may be questioned. It is not unusual for rebellion against morality to occur, especially by the developing members of societies, or those whose behaviour is especially affected. At times, this questioning extends to the society in general, even to the extent of changing of laws which prohibited certain behaviours. Sometimes, the abandonment of the previous moral stance is found to have no great apparent detriment, perhaps due to changed circumstances, such as technological developments. Usually, however, the rebellion occurs only until the harmful consequences of the previously forbidden actions, and the need for that morality, are rediscovered. (If this were not so, the particular aspect of the morality would not exist.)
Impact of the Evolutionionary World-view on Morals
A corollary of evolution is that it denies the absolute significance of moral values. Opponents of moral absolutism such as evolutionary psychologists have argued that human morality evolved because it assists survival. An innate tendency to develop a sense of right and wrong may help an individual to survive and reproduce in a social, thinking species. Selected behaviours, seen in abstraction as moral codes, are common to all human cultures, and reflect, in their development, similarities to natural selection. This aspect of morality can be seen in religious doctrine, much of which deals with the acceptance, in people, of positive aspects, and the rejection of negative ones. Thus it can be argued that there may be a simple Darwinian explanation for the existence of religion: regardless of the truth or falsity of religious beliefs, religion tends to encourage morality, morality tends to encourage communality, and communality tends to assist survival.
The thesis of evolutionary psychology is controversial. One might argue that it puts one in an impossible moral dilemma. My definition of who is wise and what is good may differ from yours. The problem is, who is to decide?
Furthermore, if the unimpeded progress of evolution were our chief concern, why should we care for the defenseless, the weak, or the sick? Would it not be more prudent to put them to sleep, lest they hinder the evolutionary process? Where is the rational basis for any sentimental feelings for the innate value of human life? In some juridical systems, the word morality concretely means a requirement for the access to certain charges or careers, or for the obtaining of certain licenses or concessions, and generally consists of the absence of previous records on (e.g.) crimes, bankruptcy, political or commercial irregularities.
In some systems, the lack of morality of the individual can also be a sufficient cause for punishment, or can be an element for the grading of the punishment.
Especially in the systems where modesty (i.e., with reference to sexual crimes) is legally protected or otherwise regulated, the definition of morality as a legal element and in order to determine the cases of infringement, is usually left to the vision and appreciation of the single judge and hardly ever precisely specified. In such cases, it is common to verify an application of the prevalent common morality of the interested community, that consequently becomes enforced by the law for further reference. See also: blue laws, sexual morality, moral relativism, moral absolutism, moral universalism, moral hazard
Compare: ethics
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See also sexual norm.Sexual morality refers to the beliefs and practices by which a culture, group, faith, etc. regulates their members' behaviour in matter of sexual activities. Many cultures and religions have a sexual morality that they would like to apply even to non adherents; sometimes force has been used in spreading concepts of morality.
These rules sometimes distinguish between sexual activities that are practiced for biological reproduction (sometimes allowed only when in formal marital status and in fertile age) and other activities practiced for the pleasure of sex only (or mainly).
In this sense, a concept of sexual morality can be expressed in any of the possible directions, and groups exist that recommend restrictive behaviours as well as groups that recommend totally free self-determination, as well as a variety of intermediate positions.
The respective efficacy of these rules depends on the social position of the group that develops them, on its eventual political representativity, on its relationships with the laws of the related country.
Views on sexual morality have varied greatly over time and from culture to culture. Usually, they derive from religious beliefs, but some writers have pointed out that social and environmental conditions play a part in the development of a given society's views on sexual morality.
In Western pluralistic societies of the 20th and 21st centuries, there often exists debate on not only whether there is a common morality, but on whether it is right to expect such a common view. In most western societies, laws allowing a wide range of sexual relationships between consenting adults is the norm, although that legal range varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The debate thus often includes a sub-argument of what is legal vs. what is moral.
In previous centuries and in many non-western cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries, there has been less room for debate. This does not mean, however, that views on sexual morality have ever been homogenous.
For example, in Hellenic society, homosexual behavior was often encouraged and accepted as part of the socialization and upbringing of young men, especially those in the military. These relationships were in addition to heterosexual relationships entered into for the establishment of families and the production of progeny so that property would be inherited and kept within a larger kinship group. The importance of the kin-group and the maintenance of its property was such that, under certain circumstances, Athenian law allowed an uncle to marry his niece in order to keep family property together. It could be therefore argued that the needs of the family constituted a higher morality that helped to define the sexual mores of the society as a whole.
Another example is the contrast between traditional European and traditional Asian or African views of permitted familial relationships. British law and custom, for example, frequently forbade intermarriage between those related by marriage. However, in rural regions of India, Nepal, and surrounding nations, fraternal polyandry, in which two (or more) brothers marry the same woman, is culturally accepted. Likewise, European mores generally advocate monogamy strongly. However, polygamy is a much more common social pattern worldwide, with some 80 percent of world cultures considering it acceptable. Polygyny is widely practiced by many societies throughout Asia and Africa, and polyandry is the accepted norm in a few Indian and African societies.
In the United States, what many conservatives call "traditional morality" is held to prohibit all non-marital sex, because of the moral belief that sexual relations should occur only between husband and wife. This view of morality thus disapproves of some or all of the following--premarital, extramarital, and homosexual relations--whether consensual or not.
There are people who disagree with this traditional view. Generally they believe that sex is a natural behavior which should be only minimally restricted by legislation or other imposed moralities. Even among the most liberal views of sexual morality in the US, there is generally agreement that involving non-consenting partners (or those unable to give consent legally) in sexual relationships should be restricted and punishable under the law.
Spreading sexual morality to non-adherents
Many cultures intend to develop a regulation of individual behaviours, in the sense that if non-members too could be forced (or however convinced) to respect its "code", in many cases the culture-group-etc would have achieved its goal. The proposed regulation is usually declared in a universal form, as an absolute "law".
Like other types of behaviour, various religious and cultural groups attempt to persuade or force others to behave according to their view of sexual morality. Various groups amongst followers of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all do so. Most of the Islamic world has strict rules enforced with sometimes violent punishments to enforce their views on morality, including sexual morality on their citizens, and often attempt to impose it on non-Muslims living within their societies. The same was true of various European Christian kingdoms at some stages in history, and still many Christians attempt to resist laws guaranteeing sexual freedom (for instance, many US states retain laws against homosexuality despite the impossibility of prosecution), mostly unsuccessfully. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel try to coerce their fellow Jews to follow the Jewish laws of sexuality. They don't literally force anyone to do this, and rather use words (newspapers, books, radio shows, websites, etc.) to promote their views.
Jewish views of sex and morality
In "A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice", Rabbi Isaac Klein writes a summation of Jewish views towards sex. "Modern man is heir to two conflicting traditions neither of which is Jewish: On the one hand, the rebirth of the old paganism which found its extreme expression in the sacred prostitutes of Canaan...and on the other hand, the Christian reaction to the excesses of paganism...sex became identified with original sin, and celibacy was regarded as the ideal form of life. Modern man, while opting for pagan libertinism, also suffers a guilty conscience because of his Christian heritage....Judaism is free of both extremes. It rejects the espousal of uncontrolled sexual expression that paganism preaches, and also Christianity's claim that all sexual activity is inherently evil. Jewish marriage is based on a healthy sexual viewpoint that rejects the two extremist principles, and so are the regulations governing the conjugal relations between husband and wife, taharat hamishpacha, the purity of family life."
The Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative Judaism) has published a pastoral letter on human sexuality, "This Is My Beloved, This Is My Friend: A Rabbinic Letter on Intimate Relations". Topics include sex within marriage; having children; infertility; divorce; adultery; incest; single parenthood; non-marital sex; contraception; homosexuality; and the laws of family purity (taharat hamishpacha).
Perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of Jewish law are the laws related to toharat ha'mishpach (Hebrew: literally "family purity"). These rules inform us that a women enters a state of "tameh" when she is menstruating. During this time a couple must refrain from all physical contact, especially sexual relations. After the cessation of her menstrual flow, the women counts seven days before immersing herself in a mikva, at which time sexual relations between man and wife can then continue. The words "tahor" and "tameh" are often, but erroneously, translated as physically clean and unclean. However, these terms actually describe a state of ritual applicability in regards to fulfilling biblical commandments, such as those associated with the Temple in Jerusalem, the cultic function of Kohanim (priests), and sexual relations within in a Jewish marriage. Modern Jewish authors often translate tahor and tameh as "ritually pure" and "ritually impure".
Judaism has historically viewed homosexuality as a grave sin; in recent years some of the more liberal Jewish denominations have begun rethinking this understanding for various reasons; this topic is discussed separately in the entry on Jewish views of homosexuality.
For more details, see Rabbi Michael Gold's "Does God Belong in the Bedroom?" and Rabbi Shmuel Boteach's "Kosher Sex".
Christian views of sex and morality
The New Testament holds forth a number of discussions on sex and sexuality; these discussions are mainly by Paul. In these parts of the New Testament Paul informs Christians that celibacy and chastity are more desirable than entering into a sexual relationship with a woman - "It is good for a man not to touch a woman." (Corinthians I, 7:1) The later Church Fathers took this teaching to heart and taught that chastity and celibacy were a better state than marriage." All forms of sexual relations, even within marriage, are denoted as fornication and unsavory. "The body is not meant for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body...Do you know that your bodies are members of Christ? (Corinthians I, 6:13,15)
Granting a concession to what the New Testament views as a human weakness, Paul states that if a person is absolutely unable to maintain chastity, then only then may he marry a woman and engage in sexual relations. However, the practice of engaging in sex is ultimately a lack of self-control and is looked down upon. "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband."(Corinthians I, 7:2); "I say this by way of concession, not of command. For I wish that all men were as I myself am...Therefore, I say to the unmarried and the widows that it is good for them to remain singles as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." (Corinthians I, 7:6-9)
The New Testament holds marriage to be undesirable and a cause of distress. "Now concerning the unmarried...I think that in the view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is...Are you free from a wife? Then do not seek a wife. But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries, she does not sin. Yet those who marry shall have trouble in flesh." (Corinthians I, 7:25-28); "I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord, but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife and his interest is divided...The unmarried woman cares for the affairs of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but a married woman cares for worldly affairs, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord." (Corinthians I, 7:32,35); "So that he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marrying will do better." (Corinthians I, 7:38)
In summary, Paul's teaching to the early Christian church includes encouragement to "...abide even as I"--unmarried. (Corinthians I, 7:8) However, this is spoken of as a preference Paul had--one which he notes as not being for every man (Corinthians I, 7:7)--in order that Christians "...may attend upon the Lord without distraction." (Corinthians I, 7:35) But, if the temptation of the flesh be too great, one should marry, "...and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned." (Corinthians I, 7:28)
It is worth noting that the early patriarchs of the Old Testament were not without wives. In fact the first book of the Bible reveals God noting that "...It is not good that man should be alone" (Genesis 2:18). Out of this God created Eve, a helper for Adam. Was not this relationship condoned by God? But, perhaps the result from this union was what Paul was referring to when he wrote, "But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife." (Corinthians I, 7:33) Was Adam not pleasing Eve when he bit into the apple?--quite certainly the ultimate division between Adam and God.
(Sections need to be written on the modern day views of Catholic Christians, Orthodox Christians, Protestant Christians. Their views are often different, if not antithetical, to those in the New Testament, so it would be useful to trace how their views evolved.)
Muslim views of sex and morality
(to be written)(New sections may be added here.)
See: Homosexuality and morality; Religion and homosexuality, incest, sodomy law, sexual revolution
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Synonyms: ImmoralSynonyms: bad (adj), base (adj), depraved (adj), dishonorable (adj), dishonourable (adj), perverse (adj), perverted (adj), reprobate (adj), unethical (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: amoral (adj), moral (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vice | Adjective: vicious; sinful; sinning;Verb: wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous, undutiful. |
Wrong | Objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified; illegal; iniquitous; immoral. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Immoral |
| English words defined with "immoral": baggage ♦ civil disobedience, conscience, corrupt, crooked ♦ Everliving ♦ Jezebel ♦ lead astray, lead off ♦ misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed ♦ neutral. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "immoral": Absalom ♦ Bet ♦ CONTINUITY DIRECTOR, copy reader ♦ editor, continuity and script ♦ Infants ♦ Kiss ♦ Lake ♦ Milesian Story ♦ Satan, SCRIPT READER, Stockings ♦ Tadpole. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Immoral" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (abandoned, immoral, nasty, non moral, promiscuous, unethical, wrong). |
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Screenplays | What you're proposing is illegal, immoral and just plain rotten (Captain Nice; writing credit: Norman Klenman) I don't wanna badmouth the kid, but he's a horrible, dishonest, immoral louse (Broadway Danny Rose; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Immoral (1965) Too Immoral Too Young (1962) The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) A Most Immoral Lady (1929) Immoral Support (1992) | |
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 | Abominable; amoral; atrocious; base; contemptible; corrupt; debased; degenerate; depraved; devilish; dissolute; egregious; evil; fiendish; flagitious; foul; gross; guilty; heartless; heinous; immoral; impious; impish; incorrigible; indecent; iniquitous; i. |
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Alex Dumas | A young girl must not be taken to the theatre, let us say it once for all. It is not only the drama which is immoral, but the place. |
Alexander Woollcott | All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening. |
Oscar Wilde | The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. |
| The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | How immoral to impose it on them, if they were to be used as the instruments, and the knowing instruments, for violating what they swear to support! (reference) |
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Business | Although these types of marketing methods have made an important contribution to the expansion of the market in such a short period time, Korean consumers have developed a negative perception that the multi-level network sales approach is somewhat immoral or unethical since it tends to lure people into non-labor earnings. (references) | |
Children | Zimbabwe | The Sexual Offenses Act, enacted in August, expanded the definition of sexual offenses to include an immoral or indecent act with a person with mental disabilities. (references) |
Malaysia | In 1998 the Minister of National Unity and Social Development stated that 150 to 160 underage girls are detained each year for involvement in immoral activities and sent to rehabilitation centers. (references) | |
Mozambique | In the absence of separate boarding facilities, local residents blamed schoolgirls for immoral behavior in the community and pressured authorities to comply with the illegal demand, which effectively prevented many girls from attending the school. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Chile | In December the President of the Supreme Court brought charges against a talk show participant who, commenting on the case of a women who spent 3 years in prison for a crime for which she ultimately was absolved, accused the justice system of being immoral, cowardly, and corrupt. (references) |
Economic History | Malaysia | In early September 1998, Prime Minister Mahathir dismissed Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and accused Anwar of immoral and corrupt conduct. (references) |
Uk | A patent cannot be granted for any invention used for any offensive, immoral or antisocial purpose, for any variety of animal or plant, or for a biological process used in its production. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zambia | In January police and a neighborhood watch group beat, detained, and subsequently released with a charge of immoral behavior 11 men who were suspected of killing a man. (references) |
Political Economy | Jordan | The law still allows for reduced punishments for violent "honor crimes" against women for alleged immoral acts. (references) |
Women | Zimbabwe | It also expanded the definition of sexual offenses to include rape, sodomy, incest, indecent assault, or an immoral or indecent act with a child or person with mental disabilities. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bangladesh | Trafficking in children for immoral or illegal purposes carries the death penalty or life imprisonment. (references) |
United Kingdom | The police successfully prosecuted traffickers under laws such as those against procuring and living off of immoral earnings. (references) | |
Estonia | The work may not endanger the minor's health or be considered immoral, cannot interfere with education, and must be included on a government-approved list. (references) | |
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| "Immoral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.65% of the time. "Immoral" is used about 187 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.65% | 177 | 23,322 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.81% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.53% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 187 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "immoral": be immoral ♦ become immoral ♦ immoral behaviour. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "immoral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | imoral (dissolute, promiscuous), i pamoralshëm (bad, reprobate). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), متهتك (dissolute, profligate), لا اخلاقي, سافل (black sheep, dirty, low, mean, pedestrian, raffish, varmint), عربجي, خول (authorise, authorize, enable, libidinous, qualify, vest). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развратен (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, fast, filthy, goatish, impure, lax, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, rakish, reprobate, scarlet, sporty), неморален (blackguardly, light, loose, wrong), безнравствен (licentious, unedifying, unmoral). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不道德 . (various references) | |
Czech | nemravný (dissolute, indecent, obscene, vicious, wanton), nemorální (amoral, non moral). (various references) | |
Danish | samling af utugtige bøger (collection of immoral books), samling af amoralske bøger (collection of immoral books). (various references) | |
Dutch | zedenmisdrijf (immoral offence), zedendelict (immoral offence), opzettelijk teweegbrengen en bevorderen van het plegen van ontucht door een minderjarige (incitement of minors to immoral behaviour), gifkast (collection of immoral books). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Gamy, Perverse, Putrid, Rake, Rancid, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Vile, Villainous), هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), زشت رفتار, بدسیرت , بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Impatient, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Rake, Reprobate, Vile). (various references) | |
Finnish | siveetön (obscene, unchaste), moraaliton (of loose morals), epäsiveellinen. (various references) | |
French | immoral. (various references) | |
German | unsittlich (indecent), unmoralisch (immorally, loose, loosely, unethical), sittenlos. (various references) | |
Greek | άσεμνοσ (immodest, indecent, indecorous, obscene, racy, unchaste), ανήθικοσ (bawdy, nonmoral, obscene, profligate), ανήθικος (unethical). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא מוסרי (unconscionable), בלתי מוסרי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | erkölcstelen (bawdy, corrupt, dirty, dissipated, filth, filthy, lewd, loose, meretricious, profligate, rotten, unmoral, unprincipled, vicious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tunasusila, tidak sopan, panjang mata, mesum (bawdy, dirty, indecent, obscene). (various references) | |
Italian | immorale, scostumato (boor, boorish, dissolute). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 道ならぬ . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みちならぬ. (various references) | |
Korean | 불륜한. (various references) | |
Manx | rouanagh (lewd, profligate, rioter, riotous, wanton), maarderagh (adulterous, lascivious, lecher, libertine, unchaste, whoremonger). (various references) | |
Norwegian | umoralsk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immoralay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imoral (drossy, filthy, gay, impure, obscene, profligate, vicious, wasteful, wicked), dissoluto (dissolute, loose, rackety, rakish), devasso (bawdry, dissolute, free thinker, lecherous, lewd, libertine, loose, lothario, playboy, profligate, rakish, roue, salacious, wanton, wasteful), contrrio moral. (various references) | |
Romanian | imoral (corrupt, gay, impure, lecherous, licentious, loose, nasty, outrageous, scrofulous, sinful, wicked), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong). (various references) | |
Russian | безнравственный (reprobate, unmoral, unprincipled, wicked). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nepošten (crooked, devious, dishonest, knavish, underhand, underhanded, unprincipled, unscrupulous), nemoralan (cankered, non moral, unprincipled, vicious, wanton). (various references) | |
Spanish | inmoral (abandoned, loose, unmoral, unprincipled). (various references) | |
Swedish | osedlig (lewd), omoralisk (loose, unethical). (various references) | |
Turkish | terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпутний (abandoned, cockish), аморальний (amoral, bad, libertine, licentious, non moral, reprobate, unclean, unmoral). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trái luân lý, trái đạo đức, phóng đãng (profligate, raffish, riotous), đồi bại xấu xa. (various references) | |
Welsh | anfucheddol, anfoesol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "immoral": immoralism, immoralisms, immoralist, immoralists, immoralities, immorality, immorally. (additional references) | |
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"Immoral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ammoral, Imara, immor, immorial, immotal, imoral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immoral" (pronounced i'mô"rul) |
| 5 | -m ô" r u l | amoral, Balmoral, moral. |
| 4 | -ô" r u l | aural, auroral, boral, choral, coral, floral, goral, Sorel, Sorrel, laurel, Loral, oral, quarrel. |
| 3 | -r u l | ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, austral, barrel, Beryl, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, feral, gambrel, imperil, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, integral, intramural, minstrel, mistral, mitral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, orchestral, peril, plural, rural, scoundrel, several, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-m-o-r" | |
-2 letters: moira, molar, moral. | |
-3 letters: amir, ammo, aril, imam, lair, lari, liar, lima, limo, lira, loam, mail, maim, mair, malm, marl, milo, moil, mola, momi, mora, oral, rail, rami, rial, roam, roil. | |
-4 letters: ail, aim, air, ami, arm, lam, lar, mar, mil, mim, mir, moa, mol, mom, mor, oar, oil, ora, ram, ria, rim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: immortal, memorial, moralism. | |
+2 letters: amoralism, formalism, immolator, immorally, immortals, memorials, moralisms, oriflamme. | |
+3 letters: amoralisms, commercial, formalisms, immemorial, immolators, immoralism, immoralist, immorality, immortally, memorially, micromolar, microsomal, millimolar, oriflammes, semiformal. | |
+4 letters: columbarium, commercials, commissural, immoralisms, immoralists, immortalise, immortality, immortalize, lamelliform, malapropism, manorialism, matrimonial, memorabilia, memorialise, memorialist, memorialize, memorizable, momentarily, recommittal. | |
+5 letters: aeroembolism, allomorphism, commercially, commissarial, immemorially, immoderately, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalized, immortalizer, immortalizes, inflammatory, malapropisms, malformation, manorialisms, melodramatic, memorability, memorialised, memorialises, memorialists, memorialized, memorializes, metronomical, microclimate, prothalamium, recommittals, uncommercial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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