Words and phrases that have a meaning related to ought: (141 results)
Often used in the same context:
should, must, would, want, need, oughta, behooves, could, going, supposed, deserve, gotta, think, presume, damned, implore, disserve, willy nilly, naysay, let, means, does, wont, tend, redounds, someday, happens, seems, enlightened, moral obligation, gonna, why, mirandizing, being, inclined, wecan, obliged, ourselves, unless, what, compelled, preconceived idea, got, presupposes, wanna, offends, dialoging, lemme, legislating, constitutionalize, coarsen, cant, condescended, reasoned, ipso facto, dictates, wish, like, sermonise, shutup, belabour, dumbfounds, urge, intrusted, holy writ, dare, dangling modifier, cui bono, decides, pshaw, doest, guess, deem, refuse, truckling, hornswoggle, god almighty, temporize, try, pussyfooting, sauve qui peut, ceteris paribus, inhere, politically correct, truthy, hyperbolizing, adjudges, ask, darn, chooses, hifalutin, know, overrates, bureaucratize, prefer, oftentimes, absolute, ideal, will, evil, good, goodness, holiness, judgments, righteousness, touchstone, transcendence, absolutes, agnosticism, anarchy, antinomy, atheism, atheists, certainties, commandments, crux, aesthetical, analogous, combinatory, complex, how, motivating, parmenidean, recency, simple, action, adaptational, aesthetic, aetiological, allocational, allocative, anchoring, attitudinal, axiological, balancing, basic
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augean, right-minded, surcharge, unfixed
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Also try:had better
— Adjectives for ought: five, moral, ethical, absolute, theoretical, valid, australian, universal, practical, communist, eternal, more...
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