If you are amoral, you're not a jerk, you just don't know that what you're doing is wrong. In the 1800s, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (among other treasures), coined the word amoral to differentiate from immoral.
Use immoral when someone has a conscience, but acts against it. Use amoral when someone doesn’t believe in right and wrong, doesn’t understand right and wrong, or doesn’t have a conscience, and so can’t be said to act against it.
AMORAL definition: not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral. See examples of amoral used in a sentence.
Define amoral. amoral synonyms, amoral pronunciation, amoral translation, English dictionary definition of amoral. neither moral nor immoral; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong: Sometimes lawbreakers are simply amoral.
The meaning of AMORAL is having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong. How to use amoral in a sentence.
(Definition of amoral from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Definition of amoral adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe someone as amoral, you do not like the way they behave because they do not seem to care whether what they do is right or wrong.
amoral, adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
An amoral person is someone who does not distinguish between right and wrong, or who does not care about the consequences of their actions on others. An amoral thing is something that is not capable of moral thought or action, such as a natural disaster.