Definition: the significance of a story or event
Usage: the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
Similar words: significance, signification, meaning, import
Definition: the message that is intended or expressed or signified
Usage: what is the meaning of this sentence; the significance of a red traffic light; the signification of Chinese characters; the import of his announcement was ambiguous
Synonyms: moral
Definition: concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
Usage: moral sense; a moral scrutiny; a moral lesson; a moral quandary; moral convictions; a moral life
Similar words: chaste
Definition: abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse
Similar words: clean, clean-living
Definition: morally pure
Usage: led a clean life
Similar words: moralistic
Definition: narrowly and conventionally moral
Similar words: righteous
Definition: morally justified
Usage: righteous indignation
Similar words: incorrupt
Definition: free of corruption or immorality
Synonyms: moral
Definition: psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect
Usage: a moral victory; moral support
Similar words: mental
Definition: involving the mind or an intellectual process
Usage: mental images of happy times; mental calculations; in a terrible mental state; mental suffering; free from mental defects