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Verb (modal)
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Used to indicate duty or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions,
  1. Used to indicate duty or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions
    • - they ought to respect the law
    • - it ought not to be allowed
  2. Used to indicate a desirable or expected state
    • - he ought to be able to take the initiative
  3. Used to give or ask advice
    • - you ought to go
  4. Used to indicate something that is probable
    • - five minutes ought to be enough time
  1. There are several names for the number 0 in English, and concomitant names for the decades where the tens column contains the number 0. ...
  2. (Oughtness) The categorical imperative is the central philosophical concept in the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, as well as modern deontological ethics. Introduced in Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, it may be defined as a way of evaluating motivations for action.
  3. A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted to what is the case; Simple past of owe; Alternative spelling of aught. at all, to any degree; Alternative spelling of aught. anything
  4. (oughtness) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.^[1]; The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness. ...
  5. (oughts) A decade such as that from 1900 to 1909 C.E., or 2000 to 2009, where the digit in the tens place is zero
  6. 'DANGEROUS IDEAS:' Those who were bought -- they fought all the thought brought in and taught. (What's taught makes folks taut.)
  7. The word ‘ought’ is a “verbal auxiliary”, which is used to add the element of obligation to the meaning of the verbal phrase (and hence the utterance as a whole). In the context of morality, it is the additional meaning of moral obligation which is added. ...