unmoral

[ uhn-mawr-uhl, -mor- ]

adjective

1. neither moral nor immoral; amoral; nonmoral:

   Nature is unmoral.

unmoral

/ ˌʌnməˈrælɪtɪ; ʌnˈmɒrəl /

adjective

1. outside morality; amoral

Derived Forms

• unˈmorally, adverb
• unmorality, noun

Other Words From

• un·mo·ral·i·ty [uhn-m, uh, -, ral, -i-tee, -maw-], noun
• un·moral·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unmoral¹

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

Synonym Study

See immoral.

Example Sentences

Israel urged Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to condemn the "absolutely unmoral" remarks, saying they endangered the safety of Jewish communities in Spain.

From Reuters

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

They discuss no moral problems, they place us in no relation towards our fellow that can be called moral at all, they belong to that part of us which is youthful, undebating, wholly unmoral—though not immoral—they are simply always young, always healthy, always miraculous.

From Project Gutenberg

Of course I leave out of view here all that field of artistic activity which is merely neutral, which is—not immoral but—merely unmoral.

From Project Gutenberg

Or when our own Mr. Way paints his luminous bunches of grapes, one of which will feed the palates of a thousand souls though it is never eaten, and thus shows us how Art repeats the miracle of the loaves and fishes, feeding the multitude and leaving more of the original provision than was at first; we have most delightful unmoral art.

From Project Gutenberg