'Principled' definitions:
Definition of 'principled'
From: WordNet
adjective
Based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality; "principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency"; "a principled person" [ant: unprincipled]
Definition of 'Principled'
From: GCIDE
- Principle \Prin"ci*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Principled; p. pr. & vb. n. Principling.] To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. [1913 Webster]
- Governors should be well principled. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Princock
Synonyms of 'principled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- blameless,
- Christian,
- clean,
- correct,
- creditable,
- decent,
- erect,
- estimable,
- ethical,
- fair,
- full of integrity,
- good,
- high-minded,
- high-principled,
- highly respectable,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immaculate,
- inviolate,
- irreproachable,
- just,
- law-abiding,
- law-loving,
- law-revering,
- manly,
- moral,
- moralistic,
- noble,
- proper,
- pure,
- reputable,
- respectable,
- right,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- scrupulous,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- sterling,
- true-dealing,
- true-devoted,
- true-disposing,
- true-souled,
- true-spirited,
- truehearted,
- unblemished,
- uncorrupt,
- uncorrupted,
- undefiled,
- unimpeachable,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untarnished,
- upright,
- uprighteous,
- upstanding,
- virtuous,
- worthy,
- yeomanly
Words containing 'Principled'
- Principle,
- Principling,
- in principle,
- principles,
- Bitter principle,
- Bitter principles,
- Principle of contradiction,
- Proximate principle,
- Vital principle,
- accounting principle,
- archimedes' principle,
- basic principle,
- exclusion principle,
- extractive principle,
- first principle,
- fundamental principle,
- guiding principle,
- high principled,
- indeterminacy principle,
- judicial principle,
- legal principle,
- life principle,
- localisation principle,
- localization principle,
- moral principle,
- nervous principle,
- pleasure principle,
- principle of equivalence,
- principle of parsimony,
- principle of relativity,
- principle of superposition,
- reality principle,
- superposition principle,
- uncertainty principle,
- working principle,
- High-principled,
- Principle of virtual velocities,
- Principle of vis viva,
- gestalt principle of organization,
- huygens' principle of superposition,
- le chatelier principle,
- le chatelier's principle,
- pauli exclusion principle,
- principle of liquid displacement,
- The let-alone principle,
- generally accepted accounting principles,
- mass-action principle,
- pleasure-pain principle,
- pleasure-unpleasure principle,
- le chatelier-braun principle