| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
Synonyms: |
answerability, blameworthiness, contrition, crime, criminality, culpability, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, peccability, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, self-condemnation, self-reproach, shame, sin, sinfulness, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong |
Antonyms: |
innocence |
| 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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| Concept: | Guilt. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude (improbity); sinfulness (vice)., 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 |
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| Main Entry: | blame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
Synonyms: |
accountability, answerability, burden, culpability, fault, guilt, incrimination, liability, onus, rap |
| Main Entry: | collusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret understanding, often with intent to defraud |
Synonyms: |
bait and switch, bill of goods, bunco, cahoots, complicity, con game, connivance, conspiracy, craft, deceit, diddling, dodge, double-cross, fast shuffle, flam, flimflam, fradulent artifice, graft, guilt, guiltiness, gyp, intrigue, plot, racket, scam, scheme, shell game, skunk, sting*, trick, whitewash |
| 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) |
| Main Entry: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
Synonyms: |
abetment, agreement, collaboration, collusion, complot, concurrence, confederacy, connivance, engineering, guilt, guiltiness, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, innocence, noninvolvement, refusal |
| 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: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
Synonyms: |
accountability, answerability, blunder, crime, culpability, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, evil doing, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, loss of innocence, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, peccancy, responsibility, slip, slip-up, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
| Main Entry: | onus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
Synonyms: |
bar sinister, black eye, blame, blot, blur, brand, charge, culpability, deadweight, duty, encumbrance, fault, guilt, incubus, liability, load, millstone, obligation, odium, oppression, responsibility, slur, spot, stain, stigma, task, tax, weight |
Antonyms: |
aid, benefit, blessing, help |
| Main Entry: | remorse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty or bad conscience |
Synonyms: |
anguish, attrition, compassion, compunction, contriteness, contrition, grief, guilt, pangs of conscience, penance, penitence, penitency, pity, regret, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, self-reproach, shame, sorrow |
Antonyms: |
good conscience, happiness, remorselessness, satisfaction |