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No, but it's a less inaccurate description than subjective; morality doesn't change depending on who you are, just your imperfect understanding of it.
Of course it does. What you find moral, I might find repugnant and vice-versa. And there are no "absolute moral virtues" either, such as not killing: plenty of people and societies find killing entirely appropriate, and sometimes even an act of kindness.
Your morality is entirely yours. There's nothing in your morality that everybody else is somehow compelled to abide by.
Editing because my first comment was too pithy and combative:
While I agree that understandings of morality vary across cultures and individuals, that doesn't say very much about whether morality itself varies. I think that moral relativism is a much more dangerous error than moral absolutism, for all that both are errors.