'Peccant' definitions:
Definition of 'peccant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott [syn: peccable, peccant]
Definition of 'Peccant'
From: GCIDE
- Peccant \Pec"cant\, n. An offender. [Obs.] --Whitlock. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peccant'
From: GCIDE
- Peccant \Pec"cant\, a. [L. peccans, -antis, p. pr. of peccare to sin: cf. F. peccant.]
- 1. Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'peccant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abominable,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- arraignable,
- arrant,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- atrocious,
- awry,
- bad,
- bad for,
- base,
- beside the mark,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- cankered,
- carious,
- censurable,
- contaminated,
- corrupt,
- criminal,
- culpable,
- damnable,
- dark,
- decayed,
- deceptive,
- decomposed,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- diseased,
- disgraceful,
- distorted,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- evil,
- execrable,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- festering,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- flawed,
- foul,
- gangrened,
- gangrenous,
- gone bad,
- guilty,
- harmful,
- heinous,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- ill,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- impeachable,
- implicated,
- improper,
- inaccurate,
- inauspicious,
- inculpated,
- indictable,
- inexpedient,
- infamous,
- infected,
- inferior,
- iniquitous,
- injurious,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- invalid,
- involved,
- knavish,
- low,
- malevolent,
- monstrous,
- morbid,
- morbific,
- mortified,
- naughty,
- necrosed,
- necrotic,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- not right,
- not true,
- noxious,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- pathogenic,
- pathological,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- pestiferous,
- poisoned,
- polluted,
- putrefied,
- putrescent,
- putrid,
- rank,
- reprehensible,
- reproachable,
- reprobate,
- reprovable,
- rotten,
- rotting,
- scandalous,
- self-contradictory,
- septic,
- shameful,
- sinful,
- sinister,
- sphacelated,
- spoiled,
- straying,
- suppurating,
- suppurative,
- tainted,
- to blame,
- ulcerated,
- ulcerous,
- unfactual,
- unfavorable,
- unforgivable,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unkind,
- unorthodox,
- unpardonable,
- unpleasant,
- unproved,
- unsanitary,
- unskillful,
- unspeakable,
- untoward,
- untrue,
- unwholesome,
- unworthy,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- wide,
- wrong