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| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
| Synonyms: | contrition, crime, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, shame, sin, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong, answerability, blameworthiness, criminality, culpability, malefaction, peccability, self-condemnation, self-reproach, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | innocence |
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| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
black, abandoned, accursed, adulterine, apostate, atrocious, bad, base, blameworthy, censurable, compunctious, condemned, corrupt, criminal, criminogenic, culpable, deep in iniquity, degrading, demoniacal, demoralized, demoralizing, depraved, desertless, diabolic, diabolical, discreditable, disgraceful, disorderly, disreputable, dissolute, doli incapax, dolose, evil-disposed, evil-minded, exceptionable, facinorous, false, fedifragous, felonious, fiendlike, flagitious, flagrant, foul, frail, graceless, grave, gross, guilt-sick, guilty, heartless, heinous, hell-born, hellish, hit-and-run, hot, ill-conditioned, illaudable, illegal, immoral, imperfect, improper, in fault, in the wrong, in the wrong box, incarnate, incorrect, incorrigible, indecorous, indefensible, indiscreet, inequitable, inexcusable, inexpiable, infamous, infernal, infirm, iniquitous, irreclaimable, irremissible, lawless, lax, lost in iniquity, lost to virtue, mala fide, malevolent, mephistophelian, misbegotten, miscreated, mutinous, naughty, nefarious, nefast, obdurate, objectionable, of a deep dye, one-sided, partial, past praying for, peccable, peccaminous, penal, perfidious, piacular, poison-pen, profligate, recidivous, recreant, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scampish, scandalous, scurvy, seditious, shameful, sinful, sinister, sinning, steeped in iniquity, stygian, sunk in iniquity, supercilious, thelyphthoric, to blame, too bad, transgressive, treacherous, unallowable, uncommendable, unconscionable, unduteous, undutiful, unequal, unequitable, unfair, unfit, unjust, unjustifiable, unjustified, unpardonable, unprincipled, unrighteous, unseemly, unwarrantable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, virtueless, weak, wee-wow, weighed in the balance and found wanting, wicked, wired, worthless, wrong, wrongful
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-nouns
guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude (improbity) [more]; sinfulness (vice) [more]., misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break [U.S.], capital crime, delictum., offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasanee, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony., enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a name" [Macbeth]., corpus delicti.
-adjectives
guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.
-adverbs
in flagrante delicto; red-handed, in the very act.
-phrases
cui prodest scelus in fecit [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Horace]; "O would the deed were good!" [Richard II]; "responsibility prevents crimes" [Burke;] se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Juvenal]; "so many laws argues so many
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| Antonyms: | innocence |
| Main Entry: | collusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret understanding, often with intent to defraud |
| Synonyms: | bill of goods*, cahoots*, complicity, con game*, conspiracy, craft, deceit, dodge, double-cross, flimflam*, graft, guilt, gyp, intrigue, plot, racket, scam, scheme, shell game*, skunk*, sting*, trick, whitewash, bait and switch, bunco, connivance, diddling, fast shuffle, flam, fradulent artifice, guiltiness |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
| Synonyms: | agreement, collaboration, collusion, concurrence, confederacy, engineering, guilt, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership, abetment, complot, connivance, guiltiness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, innocence, refusal, noninvolvement |
| Main Entry: | encumbrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | albatross, ball and chain, cross, debt, duty, guilt, handicap, hindrance, impediment, load, millstone, monkey on one's back, obstruction, responsibility, saddle, thorn in one's side, weight, worry |
| Main Entry: | onus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | bar sinister, black eye*, blame, blot, blur, brand, charge, duty, encumbrance, fault, guilt, incubus, liability, load, millstone*, obligation, odium, oppression, responsibility, slur, spot, stain, stigma, task, tax, weight, culpability, deadweight |
| Antonyms: | aid, benefit, blessing, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | remorse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty or bad conscience |
| Synonyms: | anguish, attrition, compassion, compunction, contrition, grief, guilt, penance, penitence, pity, regret, repentance, rue, shame, sorrow, contriteness, pangs of conscience, penitency, remorsefulness, ruefulness, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | happiness, satisfaction, good conscience, remorselessness |
| Main Entry: | repentance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling bad for past action |
| Synonyms: | attrition, compunction, conscience, contrition, grief, guilt, penitence, regret, remorse, rue, ruth, sorrow, contriteness, penitency, self-reproach, sorriness |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
| Main Entry: | shame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, embarrassment |
| Synonyms: | blot, chagrin, compunction, confusion, contempt, contrition, degradation, derision, discredit, dishonor, disrepute, guilt, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, irritation, mortification, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pang, remorse, reproach, scandal, smear, stigma, stupefaction, treachery, abashment, bad conscience, discomposure, disesteem, ill repute, loss of face, pudency, self-disgust, self-reproach, self-reproof, shamefacedness, skeleton in the cupboard |
| Antonyms: | honor, pride, respect |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, fault, guilt, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccadillo, pride, shortcoming, sloth, transgression, trespass, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evil-doing, gluttony, immorality, peccability, peccancy, sinfulness, tort, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
| Synonyms: | accountability, blunder, crime, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, responsibility, slip, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing, answerability, culpability, evil doing, loss of innocence, peccancy, slip-up* |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | responsibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accountability, blame |
| Synonyms: | albatross*, authority, burden, care, charge, constraint, contract, duty, encumbrance, engagement, fault, guilt, importance, incubus, liability, obligation, onus, pledge, power, rap, restraint, trust, amenability, answerability, boundness, culpability, holding the bag, incumbency, obligatoriness, subjection |
| Antonyms: | exemption, freedom, immunity, irresponsibility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
| Synonyms: | accountability, burden, fault, guilt, liability, onus, rap*, answerability, culpability, incrimination |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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