The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - moral adj.

1) ethical; right, good, pure, honest, proper, upright, honourable, decent, moralistic, respectable, high-minded, virtuous, upstanding, righteous, principled, scrupulous, incorruptible, noble, just: She is one of the most moral people I have ever met. 2) ethical, moralizing, moralistic: Questions of right and wrong are a subject for moral philosophy. It is a moral, not a legal, issue. --n. 3) lesson, homily, teaching, point, message; aphorism, maxim, precept, apophthegm or apothegm, adage, saw, proverb, epigram, motto, slogan: The moral of the story is, 'Do unto others before they do unto you'. 4) morals. behaviour, conduct, mores, belief, habit(s) , custom(s) , practice(s) , principle(s) , scruples, ethics, ideals, standards; probity, morality, rectitude, integrity: For this appointment, we require a person of the highest morals.