Morals

Definition

moral /'mɒrǝl; US 'mↄ:rǝl / adj ၁။ ကိုယ္က်င့္တရား။ လူ႕က်င့္ဝတ္။ a moral question/problem/judgement/ dilemma ❍ moral philosophy ❍ challenge sth on moral grounds ❍ a decline of moral standards. ၂။ သမစိတၱျဖစ္ေသာ။ a moral responsibility/ duty/ obligation ❍ show moral courage. ၃။ အက်င့္ သိကၡာရိွေသာ။ lead a moral life ❍ a very moral person. Compare IMMORAL, AMORAL ၄။ အမွားအမွန္ ခြဲျခားႏိုင္ေသာ။ Human beings are moral individuals. ၅။ စာရိတၱျပဳျပင္ေရး။ a moral drama/ tale. n ၁။ morals [pl] အက်င့္စာရိတၱ။ ကိုယ္က်င့္တရား။ question sb's morals ❍ the corruption of public morals ❍ sexual morals. ၂။ [C] သင္ခန္းစာ။ ဥပေဒသ။ The moral of this story is ‘Better late than never’. ❏ morally /-rǝli / adv ၁။ အက်င့္စာရိတၱအရ။ ကိုယ္က်င့္ တရားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍။ လူ႕က်င့္ဝတ္အရ။ morally wrong/ unacceptable/ reprehensible ❍ hold sb both legally and morally responsible. ၂။ သိကၡာရိွရိွ။ behave morally. ❏ the moral majority n [Gp] သိကၡာေစာင့္ထိန္းသူ အမ်ားစု။ ❏ moral support n [U] (စိတ္ဓာတ္ေရးရာ) အားေပးမႈ။ Would you come with me? I need some moral support. ❏ moral victory n စိတ္ဓာတ္ေရးရာ ေအာင္ပြဲ။

Examples

1. Our children’s religious and moral education
2. Moral standards/principles/values
3. [moral dilemma] : Stephen was faced with the moral dilemma of whether to return the money he had found.
4. [moral obligation/duty] : You’re not legally required to inform them
5. but it is a moral obligation.