amoral
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- If something is amoral it is not moral or immoral.
- If something is amoral it does not come from morals.
- The storm was an amoral force, that killed both good and bad people.
- If someone is amoral they do not have morals. This means that this person does not know the difference between right and wrong.
- He was totally amoral, and never even thought about whether to be good or evil.
- If something is amoral it does not come from morals.
- (informal) The same as immoral.
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change- Even though amoral means lacking or not knowing morals, and does not mean having bad morals, many native speaker say amoral to mean immoral.
- Even though "amoral" is similar to innocent in not knowing good from bad, amoral is usually a bad thing and innocent a good thing. Often, innocent means doing good because you have never thought of evil; an amoral person might do good or bad.