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criminal > 4 senses
ADJECTIVE1criminal, condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, viciousBringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
2criminalGuilty of crime or serious offense
3criminal, feloniousInvolving or being or having the nature of a crime
NOUN1criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactorSomeone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
criminal > pronunciation
Soundskrih'mahnahl
Rhymesabdominal, Abel, able, and 2061 more rhymes in ahl...
criminal > adjective 1
MeaningBringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.
Examples"a criminal waste of talent"
Synonymscondemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious
Similar towrong
Adverbscriminally
criminal > adjective 2
MeaningGuilty of crime or serious offense.
Examples"criminal in the sight of God and man"
Similar toguilty
Nounscriminality, criminalness
Adverbscriminally
criminal > adjective 3
MeaningInvolving or being or having the nature of a crime.
Examples"a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"
Synonymsfelonious
Similar toillegal
Nounscrime; crime; criminalness
criminal > noun, person
MeaningSomeone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
Synonymsfelon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
Broaderwrongdoer, offender
Narroweraccessory, accessary; arsonist, incendiary, firebug; blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist; bootlegger, moonshiner; briber, suborner; conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator; desperado, desperate criminal; fugitive, fugitive from justice; gangster, mobster; highbinder; highjacker, hijacker; hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer; kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher; mafioso; moll, gun moll, gangster's moll; murderer, liquidator, manslayer; probationer, parolee; pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker; racketeer; raper, rapist; recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal; scofflaw; smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser; thief, stealer; traitor, treasonist; violator, lawbreaker, law offender
InstancesBonney, William H. Bonney, Billie the Kid; James, Jesse James; MacGregor, Robert MacGregor, Rob Roy
Verbscriminalize

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