Moral vs Reek - What's the difference?
moral | reek |
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.
A strong unpleasant smell.
Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
(figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
(Ireland) A hill; a mountain.
As nouns the difference between moral and reek
is that moral is (of a narrative) the ethical significance or practical lesson while reek is a strong unpleasant smell or reek can be (ireland) a hill; a mountain.As a adjective moral
is of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.As a verb reek is
(archaic|intransitive) to be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.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
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) rek, ‘smoke, fog’, Albanian regj ‘to tan’).Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology , s.vv. “*raukiz”, “*reukanan”(Leiden: Brill, 2003), 299:303.Noun
(-)- As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) reken ‘to smoke’, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(en verb)- You reek of perfume.
- Your fridge reeks of egg.
- The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.