immoral

Meanings

Adjective

• deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

Adjective Satellite

• not adhering to ethical or moral principles
  • "they considered colonialism immoral"

Adj

• Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or "good morals"; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)

Synonyms

aberrant, base, corrupt, corrupted, depraved, dirty-handed, dissolute, effete, errant, immodest, immoral, improper, incontinent, indecent, indecorous, iniquitous, iniquous, licentious, obscene, perverse, perverted, profligate, unduteous, undutiful, unethical, ungodly, unjust, unprincipled, unrighteous, unscrupulous, unseemly, unworthy, wrong

Antonyms

decent, modest, moral, proper, pure, righteous, seemly, virtuous

Related Words

despicable, inequitable, inhumane, unfair