Felon

Noun

 * 1) A person convicted of a felony.

Related terms

 * felonious
 * felony

Adjectives for Felon
acquitted; larcenous

Thesaurus
Judas, abscess, aposteme, bad person, bed sore, betrayer, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, convict, criminal, crook, culprit, deceiver, delinquent, desperado, desperate criminal, double-dealer, eschar, evildoer, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, fugitive, furuncle, furunculus, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, jailbird, kibe, lawbreaker, lesion, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, miscreant, misfeasor, mobster, offender, outlaw, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, public enemy, pustule, quisling, racketeer, rising, scab, scofflaw, sinner, soft chancre, sore, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, swindler, traitor, transgressor, tubercle, two-timer, ulcer, ulceration, villain, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, worker of ill, wound, wrongdoer

Etymology
felun, feloun, from fel, felun 'traitor, wretch', from Old Low Franconian *undefined: 'wicked person', from  'flayer, whipper, scoundrel' from  'cruel, evil, frightening' (compare English fell 'fierce',  vālant 'imp'), related to *fellanan (compare  villen:,  fillen 'to whip, beat'), both from  'to stir, move, swing' (compare  adellaim 'I seek', diellaim 'I yield',  pelsatu 'to overcome, conquer', Latin pellere 'to drive, beat', Latvian plijuôs, plītiês 'to force, impose', Ancient Greek pélas 'I stitch', pílnamai 'I approach',  halacem: 'I pursue').

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: forbryder


 * German: Verbrecher, Schwerverbrecher

Etymology
From, see above

Noun

 * 1) evildoer; wrongdoer

Adjective

 * 1) evil; bad; immoral

Related terms

 * felonie