immoral
Adjective
- Not conforming to accepted standards of morality; wicked.
- deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
Adjective Satellite
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- "they considered colonialism immoral"
Adj
- Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or "good morals"; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)
Examples
- Some consider hoarding all the ’S’ tiles in Words With Friends an immoral tactic, but it’s certainly effective.
Origin / Etymology
From im- + moral.
Synonyms
base, aberrant, corrupt, corrupted, depraved, dirty-handed, dissolute, effete, errant, immodest, immoral, improper, incontinent, indecent, indecorous, iniquitous, iniquous, licentious, obscene, perverse, perverted, profligate, unduteous, undutiful, unethical, ungodly, unjust, unprincipled, unrighteous, unscrupulous, unseemly, unworthy, wrong
Scrabble Score: 11
immoral: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordimmoral: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
immoral: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary