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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

As Ames puts it, "the unmoral standard of acting at one's peril" is replaced by the question, "Was the act blameworthy?"

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe

Nature is far too unmoral to bother about rendering economists an account for her spendthrift loveliness.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian