unmoral

American  

[uhn-mawr-uhl, -mor-] / ʌnˈmɔr əl, -ˈmɒr- /

adjective

1. neither moral nor immoral; amoral; nonmoral.

   Nature is unmoral.

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unmoral British  

/ ˌʌnməˈrælɪtɪ, ʌnˈmɒrəl /

adjective

1. outside morality; amoral

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Related Words

See immoral.

Other Word Forms

• unmorality
  noun
• unmorally
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of unmoral

First recorded in 1835–45; un- ¹ + moral

Example Sentences

Those details help Wilder and the screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond “keep their unmoral story going for a couple of minutes over two hours,” he added.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2021

The Tristran cycle did not pretend to any high-toned morality—to the contrary —and so Tintagel, after what Geoffrey told about it, became a fit setting for so entirely unmoral a story as Tristran.

From Time Magazine Archive

The picture proves that travel talks on sin are unwise at critically unmoral moments.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is, they are looking for moral and spiritual results from unmoral and unspiritual processes.

From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by King, Henry Churchill

I guess I'm just fundamentally unmoral myself, he thought, and began reading the news clips.

From Deadly City by Fairman, Paul W.