Word Meanings - CRIMINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Guilty of crime or sin. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. Rogers. 2. Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. Foppish and fantastic

Additional info about word: CRIMINAL

1. Guilty of crime or sin. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. Rogers. 2. Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. Addison. 3. Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code. The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject . . . were in some cases liable to criminal process. Hallam. Criminal action , an action or suit instituted to secure conviction and punishment for a crime. -- Criminal conversation , unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con. -- Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRIMINAL)

• Culprit
• Offender
• criminal
• delinquent
• malefactor
• Delinquent
• Criminal
• culprit
• offender
• Peccant
• Morbid
• corrupt
• offensive
• objectionable
• vicious
• erring
• guilty
• transgressing
• Wicked
• Evil
• bad
• godless
• sinful
• immoral
• iniquitous
• unjust
• unrighteous
• irreligious
• profane
• ungodly
• atrocious
• black
• dark
• foul
• unhallowed
• nefarious
• naughty
• heinous
• flagitious
• abandoned

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CRIMINAL)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to CRIMINAL)

• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• ERRABLENESS
  Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
• ERRHINE
  A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ERRANTRY
  1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
• MALEFACTOR
  1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• UNHALLOWED
  Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.
• OFFENSIVE
  1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
• BLACK-JACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
• ERRANCY
  A wandering; state of being in error.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• BLACK LEAD
  Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• WICKER
  1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as
• ABERRATE
  To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• VERRUGAS
  An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
• SERR
  To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• INERRABLE
  Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• BERRETTA
  A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics (more info) of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. tawny, red:
• TERRICOLAE
  A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• FERRIER
  A ferryman. Calthrop.
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• BISERRATE
  Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.
• HERR
  A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• FERROCALCITE
  Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
• INTERROGATE
  To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson. Syn. -- To question; ask. See Question. (more info) interrogatus,