'Criminal' definitions:
Definition of 'criminal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious]
adjective
Guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"
adjective
Involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn: criminal, felonious]
noun
Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
Definition of 'Criminal'
From: GCIDE
- Criminal \Crim"i*nal\, n. One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Criminal'
From: GCIDE
- Criminal \Crim"i*nal\ (kr?m"?-nal), a. [L. criminalis, fr. crimen: cf. F. criminel. See Crime.]
- 1. Guilty of crime or sin. [1913 Webster]
- The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. [1913 Webster]
- Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Criminal action (Law), an action or suit instituted to secure conviction and punishment for a crime.
- Criminal conversation (Law), unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con.
- Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'criminal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- actionable,
- against the law,
- amoral,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- arraignable,
- arrant,
- at fault,
- atrocious,
- bad,
- bad guy,
- bad person,
- base,
- betrayer,
- black,
- black-market,
- blackguard,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- bootleg,
- censurable,
- chargeable,
- conscienceless,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- convict,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crook,
- crooked,
- culpable,
- culprit,
- damnable,
- dark,
- deceiver,
- delinquent,
- depraved,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- deviant,
- devious,
- disgraceful,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- double-dealer,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- evil,
- evildoer,
- evildoing,
- execrable,
- faulty,
- felon,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- flawed,
- foul,
- fraudulent,
- fugitive,
- gallows bird,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- guilty,
- hardly the thing,
- heinous,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- ignominious,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illegal,
- illegitimate,
- illicit,
- immoral,
- impeachable,
- impermissible,
- implicated,
- improper,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- inculpated,
- indecorous,
- indictable,
- indirect,
- infamous,
- iniquitous,
- insidious,
- involved,
- irregular,
- jailbird,
- Judas,
- justiciable,
- knave,
- knavish,
- lawbreaker,
- lawless,
- low,
- Mafioso,
- malefactor,
- malefactory,
- malevolent,
- malfeasant,
- malfeasor,
- miscreant,
- misfeasor,
- mobster,
- monstrous,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- not done,
- not kosher,
- not the thing,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- offender,
- out-of-line,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- peccant,
- public enemy,
- punishable,
- questionable,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- rank,
- reprehensible,
- reproachable,
- reprobate,
- reprovable,
- rotten,
- roughneck,
- ruffian,
- sacrilegious,
- scandalous,
- scofflaw,
- scoundrel,
- shady,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinful,
- sinister,
- sinner,
- slippery,
- suspicious,
- swindler,
- terrible,
- terrorist,
- thief,
- thug,
- to blame,
- tough,
- traitor,
- transgressor,
- trespasser,
- triable,
- tricky,
- two-timer,
- unallowed,
- unauthorized,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- unconstitutional,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undue,
- unethical,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unforgivable,
- unlawful,
- unofficial,
- unpardonable,
- unprincipled,
- unrighteous,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unseemly,
- unspeakable,
- unstatutory,
- unstraightforward,
- unsuitable,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- unworthy,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villain,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- worker of ill,
- wrong,
- wrongdoer,
- wrongdoing,
- wrongful
Words containing 'Criminal'
- Criminality,
- Criminally,
- Criminalness,
- Criminate,
- Criminated,
- Criminating,
- Crimination,
- Criminative,
- Criminous,
- Criminously,
- Criminousness,
- criminalism,
- criminalization,
- criminalize,
- Criminal action,
- Criminal conversation,
- Criminal law,
- Purchase criminal,
- criminal congress,
- criminal contempt,
- criminal court,
- criminal maintenance,
- criminal negligence,
- criminal offence,
- criminal offense,
- criminal possession,
- criminal prosecution,
- criminal record,
- criminal suit,
- desperate criminal,
- habitual criminal,
- war criminal,
- criminal investigation command,
- criminal intelligence services of canada,
- criminative criminatory incriminating incriminatory,
- u.s. army criminal investigation laboratory,
- us army criminal investigation laboratory,
- united nations crime prevention and criminal justice,
- united states army criminal investigation laboratory