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infraction - 12 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | infraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation |
| Synonyms: | breach, breaking, crime, error, faux pas, infringement, lapse, offense, sin, slip*, transgression, trespass, contravention |
| Antonyms: | obedience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, fault, felony, hit, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, transgression, trespass, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, antisocial behavior, criminality, delict, delictum, evil behavior, fast one, illegality, immorality, malefaction, tort, unlawful act |
| Notes: | crime is from Latin crimen 'judgment, accusation, offense' and a crime is an act in violation of a law; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime while a felony is a major crime |
| Antonyms: | good deed, kindness |
| Main Entry: | disobedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misbehavior; noncompliance with rules |
| Synonyms: | defiance, dereliction, disregard, infraction, infringement, insubordination, mutiny, neglect, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage, sedition, strike, stubbornness, transgression, violation, indiscipline, insubmission, insurgence, intractableness, nonobservance, perversity, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness, waywardness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, obedience, observance, submission |
| Main Entry: | injustice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfair treatment; bias |
| Synonyms: | abuse, breach, crime, damage, discrimination, encroachment, favoritism, grievance, inequality, inequity, infraction, infringement, iniquity, malfeasance, malpractice, maltreatment, miscarriage, mischief, negligence, offense, oppression, outrage, partiality, prejudice, railroad*, ruin, transgression, trespass, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing, crying shame, dirty deal, onesidedness, partisanship, sellout, unfairness, unjustness, unlawfulness |
| Antonyms: | equality, equity, ethics, fairness, impartiality, justice, morality, lawfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack, encroachment |
| Synonyms: | aggression, assault, breach, foray, incursion, infraction, infringement, inroad, intrusion, irruption, maraud, offense, offensive, onslaught, raid, transgression, trespass, violation, entrenchment, forced entrance, infiltration, overstepping, usurpation |
| Antonyms: | retreat, surrender, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | transgression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, misbehavior |
| Synonyms: | breach, crime, defiance, disobedience, encroachment, erring, error, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, lapse, misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, sin, slip, trespass, vice, wrong, wrongdoing, breaking of the law, contravention, overstepping |
| Antonyms: | behavior, good manners, obedience, right |
| Main Entry: | trespass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | invasion, offense |
| Synonyms: | breach, crime, delinquency, encroachment, error, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, intrusion, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, sin, transgression, violation, wrongdoing, contravention, entrenchment, evildoing, obtrusion, poaching, unlawful entry, wrongful entry |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
| Main Entry: | infringement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breach |
| Synonyms: | infraction, invasion, transgression, violation |
| Main Entry: | intrusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interruption |
| Synonyms: | encroachment, imposition, incursion, infraction, inroad, interference, intervention, invasion, meddling, transgression, trespass, forced entrance, impingement, interposition, obtrusion, overrunning, overstepping |
| Main Entry: | offense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, trespass |
| Synonyms: | breach, crime, delinquency, fault, infraction, lapse, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, peccadillo, sin, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | obedience |
| Main Entry: | violation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breach; breaking of the law |
| Synonyms: | abuse, break, breaking, encroachment, infraction, infringement, misbehavior, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, rupture, transgression, trespass, wrong, contravention, illegality, nonobservance, transgressing, trespassing, violating |
| Antonyms: | obedience, observance |
| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation of a law |
| Synonyms: | delinquency, dereliction, disobedience, disregard, infraction, infringement, neglect, noncompliance, offense, transgression, trespass, violation, barratry, contravention, nonobservance |
| Antonyms: | upholding |
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