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moral obligation

moral obligation noun: a duty which one owes and ought to perform on the basis of considerations of right and wrong, but which he is not legally bound to fulfill, as a duty to be charitable, a duty to pay a debt barred by the act of limitations, etc.

Noun

moral obligation (countable and uncountable, plural moral obligations)

  1. A duty which one owes and ought to perform on the basis of considerations of right and wrong, but which he is not legally bound to fulfill, as a duty to be charitable, a duty to pay a debt barred by the act of limitations, etc.
    Synonyms:
    moral duty

moral obligation meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Indonesian and Thai

moral obligation in Tamil

அறமுறைக் கடமை, நேர்மையான கடப்பாடு

moral obligation in Urdu

moral obligation
فرض farz

moral obligation in Indonesian

duty that one owes because of considerations of right and wrong but he is not legally bound to perform
kewajiban moral

moral obligation in Thai

duty that one owes because of considerations of right and wrong but he is not legally bound to perform
หน้าที่ธรรมจรรยา nâa-tîi-tam-má-jan-yaa

Synonyms of moral obligation

Forms of moral obligation

pluralmoral obligations

Questions about moral obligation

What does moral obligation mean?
Moral obligation means a duty which one owes and ought to perform on the basis of considerations of right and wrong, but which he is not legally bound to fulfill, as a duty to be charitable, a duty to pay a debt barred by the act of limitations, etc.
What is moral obligation in Tamil?
Moral obligation in Tamil is அறமுறைக் கடமை, நேர்மையான கடப்பாடு. See Moral obligation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is moral obligation?
Moral obligation is a noun.
What is the plural of moral obligation?
The plural of moral obligation is moral obligations.

Words near moral obligation in the dictionary

  1. moral minima
  2. moral minimum
  3. moral minimums
  4. moral nihilism
  5. moral objectivism
  6. moral obligation
  7. moral obligations
  8. moral of the story
  9. moral order
  10. moral orders
  11. moral outbidding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moral obligation (page history and authors); moral obligation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); فرض (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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