Moral vs Mortal - What's the difference?
moral | mortal |
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
* Sir M. Hale
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Capable of right and wrong action.
Probable but not proved.
Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
* Macaulay
Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
(obsolete) A morality play.
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
Fatally vulnerable; vital.
* Milton
Of or relating to the time of death.
* Alexander Pope
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
* Dryden
* mortal enemy
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
* Milton
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
(UK, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
A human; someone susceptible to death.
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*1596 , (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
*:Lord what fools these mortals be!
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
As adjectives the difference between moral and mortal
is that moral is of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour while mortal is susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.As nouns the difference between moral and mortal
is that moral is the ethical significance or practical lesson while mortal is a human; someone susceptible to death.moral
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
- the wiser and more moral part of mankind
Synonyms
* (conforming to a standard of right behaviour) ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous * (probable but not proved) virtualAntonyms
* immoral, amoral, non-moral, unmoralDerived terms
* moral compass * moral high ground * moral minimumNoun
(en noun)- The moral of the (The Boy Who Cried Wolf) is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
- We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
Synonyms
* (moral practices or teachings) ethics, moresHyponyms
* golden ruleExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----mortal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
- Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].
- Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
- Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, / Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
- The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
- mortal''' wit or knowledge; '''mortal power
- The voice of God / To mortal ear is dreadful.
- a sermon lasting two mortal hours
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- Let's go out and get mortal !