morally
/ˈmɔɹəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In terms of morals or ethics.
adv
In keeping of requirements of morality.
adv
To all intents and purposes; practically.
Example Sentences
- "Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with."
- "There is no pressure to leave, Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put admitted last week, claiming that investors did not “morally care” whether companies such as the Chicago-based chocolate maker did business in Russia."
- "Seven in 10 of the hiring managers responsible for posting a ghost job this year “believe posting fake jobs is morally acceptable.”"
- "to behave morally"
- "In the short exact sequence 0#92;xrightarrow#123;q#125;A#92;xrightarrow#123;r#125;B#92;xrightarrow#123;s#125;C#92;xrightarrow#123;t#125;0, B is morally A#92;timesC, even if in reality the sequence may fail to split."
- "The data governing the deformations of X then consist of what we call a structure, which is a collection of slabs and walls: these are codimension-one polyhedral subsets of B, contained locally in affine hyperplanes, along with some attached data of a ring automorphism which is used in our gluing construction. This structure has an important tropical interpretation: morally, a structure can be viewed as a union of tropical trees in #92;check#123;B#125; with leaves on #92;Delta."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: morali,moralli,morally
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɔɹəli/
- British English: /ˈmɒɹəli/
Inflected Forms
more morally (comparative)
most morally (superlative)