PRINCIPLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does principled mean? 

• PRINCIPLED (adjective)
  The adjective PRINCIPLED has 1 sense:

1. based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality

  Familiarity information: PRINCIPLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINCIPLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality

Context example:

a principled person

Similar:

high-principled (having high principles)

Also:

scrupulous (having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled)

Antonym:

unprincipled (lacking principles or moral scruples)

 Context examples 

You think me an unfeeling, loose-principled rake: don't you?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Henry Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them by their proper name; but when he talked of her having such a steadiness and regularity of conduct, such a high notion of honour, and such an observance of decorum as might warrant any man in the fullest dependence on her faith and integrity, he expressed what was inspired by the knowledge of her being well principled and religious.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)