amoral
pronunciation
How to pronounce amoral in British English:
UK [ˌeɪˈmɒrəl]
How to pronounce amoral in American English:
US [ˌeɪˈmɔrəl]
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- Adjective:
- without moral standards or principles
Word Origin
- amoral (adj.)
- "ethically indifferent," 1882, a hybrid formed from Greek privative prefix a- "not" (see a- (3)) + moral, which is derived from Latin. First used by Robert Louis Stephenson (1850-1894) as a differentiation from immoral.
Example
- 1. The society that he depicts is amoral and purposeless .
- 2. You could argue that humans are amoral and what guides them is not any sense of morality but an instinct for survival .
- 3. Euro-zone policymakers may also have been anxious not to trigger payouts to amoral " speculators " who had bet against a country going bust .
- 4. Students lose their innate inquisitiveness and imagination , and become insecure and amoral in the pursuit of high scores .
- 5. To many chinese commentators , it has revealed a widespread callousness fostered by an amoral pursuit of wealth .