Word Meanings - SINFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts. Piers Plowman. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Isa. i. 4. -- Sin"ful*ly, adv. -- Sin"ful*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINFUL)
- Abandoned
- Profligate
- wicked
- vicious
- unprincipled
- reprobate
- incorrigible
- sinful
- graceless
- demoralized
- dissolute
- depraved
- bad
- licentious
- corrupt
- Criminal
- Illegal
- felonious
- culpable
- wrong
- iniquitous
- immoral
- guilty
- nefarious
- flagitious
- Erring
- Misguided
- misled
- wandering
- Peccable
- Frail
- Vile
- Cheap
- worthier
- valueless
- low
- base
- mean
- despicable
- hateful
- impure
- abandoned
- abject
- sordid
- ignoble
- villainous
- degraded
- wretched
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SINFUL)
Related words: (words related to SINFUL)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - MISGUIDE
Misguidance; error. Spenser. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - SORDIDNESS
The quality or state of being sordid. - FRAILNESS
Frailty. - ERRABLENESS
Liability to error. Dr. H. More. - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - ERRHINE
A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a. - 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. - AMELIORATE
To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - CHEAPLY
At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. - ABJECT
1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; - 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. - MISLIKE
Dislike; disapprobation; aversion. - MISLIN
See MASLIN - WANDERMENT
The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall. - ERRANTRY
1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson. - PECCABLE
Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott. - 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. - 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. - FERRIER
A ferryman. Calthrop. - INTERREX
An interregent, or a regent. - 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.