Criminal

Adjective

 * 1) Being against the law; forbidden by law.
 * 2) Guilty of breaking the law.
 * 3) Of or relating to crime.
 * 4)  Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
 * 5) Of or relating to crime control, notably penal law.

Noun

 * 1) A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

Adjectives for Criminal
irreclaimable; petty; condemned; roving; professional; notorious; dangerous; vicious; utter; conscienceless; piratical; organized (plural); runaway;  calculating; confirmed; willful; visible; timorous; skulking; bloody; blackjacked; ruthless; hypothetical; potential; clever; perfect; experienced; frenzied; hardened; desperate; miserable; unfortunate; parricidal; adult; cinematographic; self-confessed; grotesque; incipient; enterprising; habitual; elusive;  courageous fleeing; daring.

Verbs for Criminal
apprehend—; arrest—; charge—; close in on—; coddle—; convict—; detain—; develop into—; harbor—; infest with—s; involve—; lash—; mark—; parole—; penalize—; point out—; pounce upon—;prosecute—; punish—; rehabilitate—; restrain—; retrieve—; round up—; sentence—; shame—; thwart—; —commits; — congregate; —defies;  —habituates; -haunts; —indulges; —plots; —reforms; —repents; —rifles; —schemes; —stalks; —swindles.

Adverbs for Criminal
shockingly; outrageously; brutally; grossly; basely; iniquitously; despicably; abominably; pestilentially; accursedly; damnably; diabolically; infernally; noxiously; vilely; virulently; preposterously; corruptly; atrociously; viciously; profligately; scurvily; scandalously; heinously; fiendishly; incorrigibly; irreclaimably.

Synonyms for Criminal

 * illegal, vile, vicious, wicked, abominable, immoral, sinful, wrong, iniquitous, unlawful, felonious, culpable, blamable, guilty, nefarious


 * lawbreaker, offender, perpetrator, delinquent, malefactor, felon, culprit, convict.

Antonyms for Criminal
upright, honest, good, moral, honorable, innocent, undefiled, faultless, virtuous, sinless, pure, blameless, legal, lawful, right, meritorious, just.

Related terms

 * criminal-law
 * criminal-offence
 * criminal law
 * criminal negligence
 * criminal offence
 * criminal procedure
 * criminal record


 * criminalisation
 * criminalist
 * criminalistics
 * criminality
 * criminalize
 * criminally
 * criminalness


 * criminate
 * crimination
 * criminologist
 * criminology
 * criminousness

Thesaurus
against the law, amoral, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, arraignable, arrant, at fault, atrocious, bad, bad guy, bad person, base, betrayer, black, black-market, blackguard, blamable, blameworthy, bootleg, censurable, chargeable, conscienceless, contraband, contrary to law, convict, corrupt, corrupted, crook, crooked, culpable, culprit, damnable, dark, deceiver, delinquent, depraved, desperado, desperate criminal, deviant, devious, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealer, doubtful, dubious, evasive, evil, evildoer, evildoing, execrable, faulty, felon, felonious, fishy, flagitious, flagrant, flawed, foul, fraudulent, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, guilty, hardly the thing, heinous, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, ignominious, ill-got, ill-gotten, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, impeachable, impermissible, implicated, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, inculpated, indecorous, indictable, indirect, infamous, iniquitous, insidious, involved, irregular, jailbird, justiciable, knave, knavish, lawbreaker, lawless, low, malefactor, malefactory, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, miscreant, misfeasor, mobster, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, not done, not kosher, not the thing, off-base, off-color, offender, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, peccant, public enemy, punishable, questionable, quisling, racketeer, rank, reprehensible, reproachable, reprobate, reprovable, rotten, roughneck, ruffian, sacrilegious, scandalous, scofflaw, scoundrel, shady, shameful, shameless, shifty, sinful, sinister, sinner, slippery, suspicious, swindler, terrible, terrorist, thief, thug, to blame, tough, traitor, transgressor, trespasser, triable, tricky, two-timer, unallowed, unauthorized, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, underhand, underhanded, undue, unethical, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unofficial, unpardonable, unprincipled, unrighteous, unsavory, unscrupulous, unseemly, unspeakable, unstatutory, unstraightforward, unsuitable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, unworthy, vicious, vile, villain, villainous, wicked, without remorse, without shame, worker of ill, wrong, wrongdoer, wrongdoing, wrongful

Etymology
From, from criminal:, from  criminalis:, from  crimen:

Adjective

 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: престъпен, криминален
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: დანაშაულებრივი


 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Romansch:
 * Russian: (prestúpnyj),  (krminál’nyj), уголовный (ugolóvnyj)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: misdadig, crimineel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Romansch:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: криминален
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: misdadig, crimineel
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: bűnügyi
 * Khmer: ខាងបទឧក្រិដ្ឋ
 * Romansch:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: krimik, midunik


 * Dutch: misdadig, crimineel
 * Greek:


 * Swahili:

Noun

 * Arabic: (mújrim)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: დამნაშავე
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פושע (poshe'a), פושעת (posha'at)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Hebrew: פושע (poshe'a), פושעת (posha'at)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
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 * Interlingua: criminal
 * Irish: coirpeach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 犯罪者 (はんざいしゃ, hanzai-sha), 犯人 (はんにん, hannin)
 * Khmer: ឧក្រិដ្ឋជន
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: infractor, infractoare
 * Russian: (prestúpnik)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: kriminalec
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Volapük: kriman,  hikriman,  jikriman,  midunan,  himidunan,  jimidunan
 * Welsh: troseddwr
 * Volapük: kriman,  hikriman,  jikriman,  midunan,  himidunan,  jimidunan
 * Welsh: troseddwr
 * Volapük: kriman,  hikriman,  jikriman,  midunan,  himidunan,  jimidunan
 * Welsh: troseddwr

Adjective

 * 1) criminal

Noun

 * 1) A criminal

Related terms

 * crimen
 * criminalidad
 * criminalista
 * criminalizar
 * acriminar