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unmoral

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

adjective

  1. neither moral nor immoral; amoral; nonmoral.

    Nature is unmoral.


unmoral British  
/ ʌnˈmɒrəl /

adjective

  1. outside morality; amoral

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Synonym Usage

See immoral.

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Etymology

Origin of unmoral

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


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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

If we try the unmoral key and it fits, it is an unmoral lock.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

To begin with, it is unmoral, as a novel of this kind must necessarily be.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant Martin Overton

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