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| Main Entry: |
ethics/ethic
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, right and wrong, rules of conduct, standard, standards, the Golden Rule |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral principle |
| Synonyms: | code, ethical code, ethical values, ethicality, ethicalness, ethics, fairness, integrity, moral, moral philosophy, morality, principle, principles, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, set of values, value-system, virtue |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- The authors are conflating the categories productive behaviour (relative to evolutionary success) and ethics.
- Her work could throw fishing ethics into disarray.
- His major contributions have come in ethics.
| Main Entry: | code |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law, rule |
| Synonyms: | canon, charter, codex, constitution, convention, custom, digest, discipline, ethics, etiquette, manners, maxim, method, regulation, system |
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | ideals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral beliefs |
| Synonyms: | ethics, goals, principles, standards, values |
| Main Entry: | morals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal principles, standards |
| Synonyms: | behavior, beliefs, conduct, customs, dogmas, ethic, ethics, habits, ideals, integrity, manners, morality, mores, policies, scruples |
| Antonyms: | amorality, disrespectability, immorality, indecency, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | principle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law, standard |
| Synonyms: | assumption, axiom, basis, canon, convention, criterion, dictum, doctrine, dogma, ethic, form, formula, foundation, fundamental, golden rule, ground, maxim, origin, postulate, precept, prescript, principium, proposition, regulation, rule, source, theorem, truth, usage, verity |
| Notes: | principle means fundamental, as in beliefs or truths or understandings and it is always a noun; principal can be a noun or adjective meaning chief or of first importance |
| Main Entry: | principle/principles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, morality; morals |
| Synonyms: | attitude, character, code, conduct, conscience, credo, ethic, ethics, faith, ideals, integrity, opinion, policy, probity, rectitude, scruples, sense of duty, sense of honor, system, teaching, tenet, uprightness |
| Antonyms: | immorality, unethicalness |
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