different between immoral vs unpleasant
immoral
English
Etymology
From im- +? moral.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m?r?l/
- Rhymes: -?r?l
Adjective
immoral (comparative more immoral, superlative most immoral)
- Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law.
- Synonyms: wicked, unjust, dishonest, vicious, licentious, unethical, corrupt, unscrupulous, wrong, unrighteous
- Antonyms: moral, pure, righteous
Usage notes
- Said of people, deeds, groups, traditions, or practices.
Related terms
- amoral
Translations
Further reading
- immoral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- immoral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From im- +? moral.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /im.mo??al/
- (Central) IPA(key): /im.mu??al/
Adjective
immoral (masculine and feminine plural immorals)
- immoral
- Antonym: moral
Derived terms
Further reading
- “immoral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “immoral” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “immoral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “immoral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From im- +? moral.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.m?.?al/
Adjective
immoral (feminine singular immorale, masculine plural immoraux, feminine plural immorales)
- immoral
- Antonym: moral
Related terms
Descendants
- Russian: ???????????????? (beznrávstvennyj) (calque)
Further reading
- “immoral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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unpleasant
English
Etymology
From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- +? pleasant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?plez?nt/
Adjective
unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant)
- Not pleasant.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- O sweet Portia,
- Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
- That ever blotted paper!
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, p. 214,[2]
- It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 35,[3]
- The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
- 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1,[4]
- […] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them […]
- 1921, Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget, Chapter 37,[5]
- And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
Derived terms
- unpleasantness
Synonyms
- disagreeable
Translations
Anagrams
- pennatulas
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