Defenition of the word guilty

• Defenition of the word guilty

  • Having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law.
  • responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; or marked by guilt; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"; "a guilty conscience"; "guilty behavior"
  • showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
  • showing a sense of guilt
  • responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act

Synonyms for the word guilty

• • hangdog
  • shamed
  • shamefaced

Similar words in the guilty

• • ashamed
  • ashamed(p)
  • at fault
  • blamable
  • blameable
  • blameful
  • blameworthy
  • bloodguilty
  • censurable
  • chargeable
  • condemned
  • conscience-smitten
  • convicted
  • criminal
  • culpable
  • delinquent
  • finable
  • fineable
  • guilt-ridden
  • inculpative
  • inculpatory
  • indictable
  • punishable
  • red-handed
  • unrighteous

Antonyms for the word guilty

• • clean-handed
  • guiltless
  • innocent
  • not guilty

Idioms for the word guilty

• • guilty as sin

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