Amoral

Definition: Amoral

Amoral

Adjective

1. Without moral standards or principles; "a completely amoral person".

Date "amoral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Amoral

Synonym: unmoral (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: immoral (adj), moral (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Amoral

English words defined with "amoral": amorality ♦ jaded ♦ unmoral. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Amoral" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (amoral), French (amoral), Portuguese (amoral, non-observance, unmoral), Romanian (amoral, non moral), Spanish (amoral, non moral), Turkish (amoral).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You, sir, are a low-life, amoral piece of crap! (Judge Judy; writing credit: Ranbir Pushp)
Movie/TV Titles	Deliciosamente amoral (1969)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Amoral America (reference) Amoral America: Sources of Morality in a Liberal Society (reference) Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of MacHiavellism (reference) Amoral Thoughts About Morality: The Intersection of Science, Psychology, and Ethics (reference) From Amoral to Humane Bureaucracy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Abominable; amoral; atrocious; base; contemptible; corrupt; debased; degenerate; depraved; devilish; dissolute; egregious; evil; fiendish; flagitious; foul; gross; guilty; heartless; heinous; immoral; impious; impish; incorrigible; indecent; iniquitous; i.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Amoral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amoral" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	36	57,479

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "amoral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		amoral. (various references)

Arabic		‏فاقد الحس الأخلاقي, ‏ليس أخلاقيا. (various references)

Bulgarian		аморален (non moral, unmoral). (various references)

Chinese		� �"德. (various references)

Czech		amorální, nemorální (immoral, non moral). (various references)

Farsi		غیراخلاقی (Unmoral), بدون احساس مسلولیت اخلاقی . (various references)

French		amoral. (various references)

German		amoralisch (immoral, unmoral). (various references)

Greek		χωρίσ συνείδηση ηθικήσ, άσχετοσ με την ηθική. (various references)

Hebrew		חסר מוסר. (various references)

Hungarian		amorális (non moral), erkölcsnélküli, erkölcs nélküli. (various references)

Indonesian		tak bermoral. (various references)

Italian		amorale. (various references)

Manx		meechiart (erring, erroneous, improper, inequitable, wrong), jeevorralagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		amoralay

Portuguese		amoral (non-observance, unmoral). (various references)

Romanian		amoral (non moral). (various references)

Russian		аморальный (immoral, non moral). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		amoralan. (various references)

Spanish		amoral (non moral). (various references)

Swedish		amoralisk (non moral). (various references)

Turkish		amoral, ahlâkdışı, ahlâk ile ilgisiz, töredışı. (various references)

Ukranian		неморальний, аморальний (bad, immoral, libertine, licentious, non moral, reprobate, unclean, unmoral). (various references)

Vietnamese		phi luân lý; ngo� i phạm vi luân lý không có ý thức về luân lý, không luân lý. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "amoral": amoralism, amoralisms, amoralities, amorality, amorally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amoral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aboral, adorals, Ahora, Amakal, Amarah, amaray, amarol, Amera, Ameral, amerle, amial, amiral, Amirali, Amiram, ammoral, amodal, Amoore, amora, amorae, amorale, amorasl, amoray, Amori, amorial, Amorin, amorle, amosa, amoureulx, amra, Amram, anaral, anora, Armorel, avora, aymaran, imoral, O'moran, o'moray, Samorat. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amoral" (pronounced āmô"rul)
5	-m ô" r u l	Balmoral, immoral, moral.
4	-ô" r u l	aural, auroral, boral, choral, coral, floral, goral, laurel, Loral, oral, quarrel, Sorel, Sorrel.
3	-r u l	ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, austral, barrel, Beryl, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, feral, gambrel, imperil, integral, intramural, minstrel, mistral, mitral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, orchestral, peril, plural, rural, scoundrel, several, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-o-r"
	-1 letter: alamo, alarm, aroma, malar, molar, moral.
	-2 letters: alar, alma, lama, loam, maar, marl, mola, mora, oral, roam.
	-3 letters: aal, ala, ama, arm, lam, lar, mar, moa, mol, mor, oar, ora, ram, rom.
	-4 letters: aa, al, am, ar, la, lo, ma, mo, om, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-o-r"
	+1 letter: armload, mayoral.
	+2 letters: abnormal, acromial, amorally, amphoral, armloads, armorial, balmoral, malaprop, malaroma, manorial, matronal, monaural, morainal.
	+3 letters: abnormals, acrosomal, ambrosial, amoralism, amorality, armadillo, armorials, atemporal, balmorals, carambola, cladogram, cyclorama, ealdorman, foraminal, granuloma, laminator, maladroit, malaprops, malarious, malaromas, marmoreal, mayoralty, melodrama, monarchal, myrobalan, patrolman, scalogram, tamarillo.
	+4 letters: abnormally, acromegaly, alderwoman, ambulatory, ameliorate, amoralisms, armadillos, armorially, blackamoor, camelopard, carambolas, carmagnole, cladograms, columbaria, comparable, comparably, cycloramas, dermatomal, formalwear, granulomas, lacrimator, laminators, laparotomy, laundromat, loadmaster, macroscale, malapropos, malefactor, meadowlark, melodramas, monarchial, monaurally, mortadella, mozzarella, myocardial, myrobalans, nonmarital, organismal, ornamental, paralogism, paranormal, paroxysmal, piroplasma, procambial, rigamarole, sarcolemma, sarcoplasm, sarcosomal, scalograms, scleromata, tamarillos.
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