ethical
adjective (ethical, more ethical, most ethical)
Everyday
- Ethical means morally right, fair and honest. tree →
- Ethical means about right and wrong, as in "an ethical question". tree →
- Ethical shopping means buying things made fairly, without harming workers, animals or nature. tree →
In the lessons
In ethics lessons pupils decide if an action is ethical: is it fair, honest, kind, and what are the consequences? Adults talk about ethical businesses, ethical banks and fair-trade chocolate. Phrases: an ethical choice, an ethical problem, ethical shopping, it's not ethical to…
Examples
- Is it ethical to keep the extra change the shop gave you? tree →
- The class debated an ethical question about animals. tree →
- We buy fair-trade bananas because they're more ethical. tree →
- Copying a friend's homework isn't ethical. tree →
- The doctor faced a hard ethical decision. tree →
- Our school tries to run an ethical tuck shop. tree →
Note
Adverb ethically; opposite unethical. Noun ethics. Note: ethical (right and wrong) is different from "ethnic" (about cultures and peoples).
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «ethical» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «ethical» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ethical/