Definition of PRINCIPLED

principled

Adjective

  • based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality
    • "principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency"
    • "a principled person"

Adj

  • Based on, having, or manifesting principles
  • Based on, having, or manifesting principles
  • strongly adhering to, or heedful of, guiding beliefs or moral rules

Verb

  • simple past and past participle of principle

Examples

  • While most of these efforts have focused on compressing the uplink, none of them provide a principled solution to compressing the downlink.

Origin / Etymology

From principle + -ed.

Antonyms

unprincipled

Scrabble Score: 17

principled: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
principled: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
principled: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

principled: valid Words With Friends Word