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| Main Entry: | sinful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, criminal |
| Synonyms: | amiss, bad, base, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, corrupt, culpable, damnable, depraved, disgraceful, erring, evil, guilty, iniquitous, irreligious, low, reprehensible, reprobate, shameful, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, wicked, wrong, blameful, demeritorious, morally wrong, unregenerate, unrighteous |
| Antonyms: | honest, moral, righteous, upright |
| Main Entry: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked, brutish, demoniac, hard-hearted, inhumane, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| Main Entry: | culpable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | responsible for action |
| Synonyms: | amiss, answerable, at fault, blamable, blameworthy, caught, censurable, dirty, guilty, hung up, liable, off base, punishable, reprehensible, responsible, sinful, smoking gun*, unholy, wrong, blameful, caught in the act, caught red-handed, demeritorious, found wanting, impeachable, in the wrong, indictable, out of line, to blame |
| Antonyms: | blameless, inculpable, innocent, right, not guilty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depraved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, immoral |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bad, base, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dirty*, dissolute, evil, fast*, filthy*, kinky*, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, profligate, putrid, rotten, shameless, sinful, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, wanton, wicked, dirty-minded, flagitous, gone to the dogs, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, just, moral, noble, pure, upright, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guilty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blameworthy; found at fault |
| Synonyms: | accusable, caught, censurable, censured, chargeable, condemned, conscience-stricken, contrite, convictable, convicted, criminal, culpable, damned, delinquent, depraved, doomed, erring, evil, felonious, hangdog*, impeached, in error, in the wrong, incriminated, iniquitous, judged, liable, licentious, offending, on one's head, out of line, proscribed, regretful, remorseful, reprehensible, responsible, rueful, sentenced, sheepish, sinful, sorry, wicked, wrong |
| Antonyms: | guiltless, innocent, moral, right, sinless, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic, pestilential, undermining |
| Main Entry: | immoral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, degenerate |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dishonest, dissipated, dissolute, fast*, graceless, impure, indecent, iniquitous, lewd, licentious, loose*, nefarious, obscene, pornographic, profligate, rakish, reprobate, shameless, sinful, speedy, unclean*, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, of easy virtue, saturnalian, unchaste |
| Notes: | a person who is amoral does not understand the difference between right and wrong, so it means that one is neither moral nor immoral, while a person who is immoral understands the difference but does wrong anyway; amoral means 'not concerned with morality' while immoral means 'not conforming to moral standards' or 'evil' immortal means not subject to death, while immoral means violating principles of right and wrong or not adhering to ethical or moral principles |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, moral, noble, pure, right, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not religious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, blasphemous, canting, contrary, deceitful, diabolic, disobedient, disrespectful, godless, hardened, hypocritical, iconoclastic, immoral, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, perverted, profane, reprobate, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, satanic, scandalous, sinful, unctuous, unethical, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, wayward, wicked, defiling, desecrating, desecrative, pietistical, recusant, undutiful, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsanctified |
| Antonyms: | holy, pious, religious |
| Main Entry: | irreligious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungodly |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, blasphemous, faithless, godless, heathen, iconoclastic, impious, irreverent, pagan, sacrilegious, sinful, unbelieving, unholy, free-thinking, undevout |
| Main Entry: | mischievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devilish, wicked |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror*, hurtful, ill, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, naughty, nocuous, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, risky, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vicious, wayward, dickens, exasperating, ill-behaved, misbehaving, rascally, vexing |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, obedient, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | profane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion |
| Synonyms: | abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty*, temporal, transient, transitory, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, vulgar, wicked, worldly, irreverential, profanatory, unconsecrated, unsanctified |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, sacred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rakish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming and immoral |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, chic, dashing, debauched, depraved, devil-may-care*, dissipated, dissolute, fashionable, fast*, flashy, gay, jaunty, lecherous, licentious, loose*, natty, prodigal, profligate, raffish, saucy, sinful, smart, sporty, wanton, wild |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; shameful |
| Synonyms: | amiss, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable, delinquent, disgraceful, errant, erring, guilty, ignoble, objectionable, opprobrious, remiss, sinful, unholy, unworthy, wicked, condemnable, demeritorious, discreditable |
| Antonyms: | creditable, good, kind, respectable |
| Main Entry: | reprobate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameless |
| Synonyms: | bad, corrupt, degenerate, foul, immoral, improper, incorrigible, lewd, rude, sinful, unprincipled, vile, wanton, wicked |
| Main Entry: | sacrilegious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profane |
| Synonyms: | atheistic, blasphemous, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, impious, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, obscene, pagan, sinful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, desecrating, irreverential, violating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shameful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | atrocious; disreputable |
| Synonyms: | base, carnal, contemptible, corrupt, dastardly, debauched, degrading, diabolical, disgraceful, dishonorable, drunken, embarrassing, flagrant, heinous, humiliating, ignominious, immodest, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, intemperate, lewd, low, mean, notorious, obscene, opprobrious, outrageous, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, ribald, scandalous, shocking, sinful, unbecoming, unclean, unworthy, vile, villainous, vulgar, wicked, mortifying, shaming |
| Antonyms: | good, reputable, respectable |
| Main Entry: | vile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abject, appalling, bad, base, coarse, contemptible, corrupt, debased, degenerate, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, evil, filthy, foul, humiliating, ignoble, immoral, impure, iniquitous, loathsome, low, mean, miserable, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noxious, perverted, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, sinful, sleazy*, stinking*, ugly, vicious, vulgar, wicked, worthless, wretched, horrid |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | villainous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bad, corrupt, crooked, cruel, culpable, deplorable, depraved, diabolical, dirty, evil, felonious, hateful, ignoble, illegal, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, knavish, lawless, low, mean, nefarious, peccant, reprehensible, scandalous, shady*, sinful, unlawful, vile, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | erring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mistaken |
| Synonyms: | criminal, culpable, delinquent, deviating, errant, fallible, faulty, sinful, sinning, straying, wrong, blundering, in error |
| Main Entry: | iniquitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unjust |
| Synonyms: | evil, sinful, unfair, vicious, wicked |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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