morale

noun

USmuh-RAL/məˈɹæl/UKmuh-RAHL/məˈɹɑːl/

Often confused with moral

1 meaning of morale

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nouncountable or uncountable
The ability of people to keep their belief in an institution or a goal, or in themselves and one another.
Three straight losses had left team morale at a season low.
The general toured the front lines to raise morale before the offensive.
Similarconfidence, spirit
Note
People treat morale as a level that rises and falls: it sinks to an all-time low after layoffs and lifts with a morale boost, and before another noun it forms compounds like morale-boosting. Groups have it more often than individuals, from a staff to an army. The final -e, kept from French morale, is what separates it from moral, the lesson of a story.

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Origin

Borrowed from French morale.