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- Dictionaryamoral/ˌeɪˈmɒrəl/
adjective
- 1. lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something: "an amoral attitude to sex"
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The meaning of AMORAL is having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong. How to use amoral in a sentence.
not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral. 2. having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong. a completely amoral person. SYNONYMS See immoral.
AMORAL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of amoral in English. amoral. adjective. uk / ˌeɪˈmɒr.əl / us / ˌeɪˈmɔːr.əl / Add to word list. without moral principles: Humans, he argues, are amoral and what guides them is not any sense of morality but an instinct for survival. Compare. immoral. moral adjective.
(Definition of amoral from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) amoral | Intermediate English. adjective [ not gradable ] us / eɪˈmɔr·əl, -ˈmɑr- / Add to word list. without moral principles: Business is an amoral activity focused coldly on success.
Amoral definition: not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.. See examples of AMORAL used in a sentence.
If you describe someone as amoral, you do not like the way they behave because they do not seem to care whether what they do is right or wrong.
amoral. When a person is amoral, they couldn't care less if something is right or wrong. An amoral CEO fires employees so he can make more money, unconcerned about how losing their jobs might affect them. The adjective amoral adds the prefix a-, "not," to moral, "concerned with the principles of right and wrong."
