guilty
AdjectiveUS[gil-tee]/ˈɡɪlti/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)guiltier, guiltiest
- responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act“guilty of murder”“the guilty person”“secret guilty deeds”Opposite clean-handedSimilar criminal, punishable, chargeable, guilt-ridden, bloodguilty, conscience-smitten, red-handed, finable +3 moreSee also inculpatory, unrighteous
- showing a sense of guilt“a guilty look”“the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy — Eric Linklater”Synonyms: hangdogshamefacedshamedOpposite unashamedSimilar ashamed
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Translations
Adjective responsible for a dishonest act
- Spanish
- culpable
- French
- coupable
- German
- schuldig
- Italian
- colpevole
- Portuguese
- culpado
- Turkish
- suçlu
- Russian
- винова́тый vinovátyj
- Arabic
- مُذْنِب muḏnib
- Chinese
- 有罪 yǒuzuì
- Dutch
- schuldig
21 more languages
- Polish
- winny
- Swedish
- skyldig
- Greek
- ένοχος énochos
- Indonesian
- bersalah
- Vietnamese
- phạm tội
- Hungarian
- bűnös
- Portuguese (PT)
- culpado
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 有罪 yǒuzuì
- Catalan
- culpable
- Czech
- vinný
- Danish
- skyldig
- Esperanto
- kulpa
- Finnish
- syyllinen
- Hebrew
- אָשֵׁם ashém
- Icelandic
- sekur
- Latvian
- vainīgs
- Norwegian
- skyldig
- Romanian
- vinovat
- Serbo-Croatian
- kriv
- Welsh
- euog
- Yiddish
- שולדיק shuldik
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Guilt′y adjective [Compar. Gultier; superlative Guiltiest.]
Origin: AS. gyltig liable. See Guilt.
1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; — used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment; as, guilty of murder.
They answered and said, He is guilty of death.— Matt. xxvi. 66.
Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.— John Dryden
2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.
3. Conscious; cognizant. obsolete Ben Jonson
4. Condemned to payment. Obs. & R. John Dryden
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54