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MORALISTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does moralistic mean?
• MORALISTIC (adjective)
The adjective MORALISTIC has 1 sense:
1. narrowly and conventionally moral
Familiarity information: MORALISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Narrowly and conventionally moral
Similar:
moral (concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles)
Derivation:
moralism (judgments about another person's morality)
moralism (a moral maxim)
morality (concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct)
morality (motivation based on ideas of right and wrong)
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