What does guilty mean in English? Meaning of guilty definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "guilty": responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
Adjective
Meaning: responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible actExample: guilty of murder
the guilty person
secret guilty deedsSynonyms: guiltyAntonyms: clean-handed
guiltless
innocentSimilar: at fault
blamable
blameable
blameful
blameworthy
bloodguilty
censurable
chargeable
conscience-smitten
criminal
culpable
delinquent
finable
fineable
guilt-ridden
indictable
punishable
red-handedAlso see: inculpative
inculpatory
unrighteousMeaning of "guilty": showing a sense of guilt
Adjective
Meaning: showing a sense of guiltExample: a guilty look
the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemySynonyms: guilty
hangdog
shamed
shamefacedSimilar: ashamedAdjective: Responsible for a dishonest act. He was guilty of cheating at cards.(law) Judged to have committed a crime. The guilty man was led away.Having a sense of guilt. Do you have a guilty conscience? 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, The Celebrity: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, The Celebrity: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.Blameworthy. I have a guilty secret. 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter II: At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter II: At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.Synonyms:
responsible, wrong, liable, culpable, sorry, remorseful, caught, censurable, chargeable, condemned, conscience-stricken, contrite, criminal, damned, delinquent, depraved, doomed, erring, evil, felonious, hangdog, iniquitous, licentious, regretful, reprehensible, rueful, sheepish, sinful, wicked, convicted, accusable, censured, convictable, impeached, in error, in the wrong, incriminated, judged, offending, out of line, proscribed, sentenced, on one's head,
Antonyms:
immune, irresponsible, guiltless, moral, truthful, right, good, innocent, sinless,
