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

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 The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney

And he wrote the most unmoral short story in the English language, one that also sets the spine trilling because of its supernatural element as never did Poe, or De Maupassant.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James