MORAL

adj. ethical; virtuous; righteous; principled; conforming to accepted standards; having integrity

n. ethic; moralistic lesson; lesson; moralistic principle

A moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. As an example of the latter, at the end of Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined tortoise wins a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the moral is "slow and steady wins the race."
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Noun
1. the significance of a story or event; "the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor"
(synonym) lesson
(hypernym) meaning, significance, signification, import
Adjective
1. relating to principles of right and wrong; i.e. to morals or ethics; "moral philosophy"
(pertainym) ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality
2. concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life"
(antonym) immoral
(similar) chaste
(see-also) chaste
(attribute) morality
3. adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"; "had the moral courage to stand alone"
(synonym) ethical, honorable, honourable
(similar) right
4. arising from the sense of right and wrong; "a moral obligation"
(similar) conscientious
5. psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect; "a moral victory"; "moral support"
(similar) mental
6. based on strong likelihood or firm conviction rather than actual evidence; "a moral certainty"
(synonym) moral(a)
(similar) near, close

n. ethics, set of moral principles or values; morality, integrity, chastity, conformity to accepted rules of conduct; morale, spirit

adj. moral, ethic, ethical

n. morale, spirit