Guilt

Noun

 * 1) Responsibility for wrongdoing.
 * 2) Awareness of having done wrong.
 * 3) The fact of having done wrong.
 * 4)  The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

Antonyms

 * innocence

Derived terms

 * guiltless
 * guiltlessness
 * guilty
 * guilt trip

Verb

 * 1) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.
 * He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.
 * 1) * 1988, John Bradshaw, Healing the shame that binds you,
 * Shame based parents would have guilted him for expressing anger.
 * 1) * 1992, Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself,
 * We don't have to be manipulated, guilted, coerced, or forced into anything.
 * 1) * 1995, Nora Roberts, True Betrayals,
 * But I won't be threatened or bribed or guilted into giving up something that's important to me.

Adjectives for Guilt
mutual; accessorial; exultant; hideous; apparent; open; inexpiable; stubborn; frustrate; tyrannic; supposed; bounteous; admitted; dread; enormous; ineffable; occulted; imputed; traitorous; murderous; uneasy; multiplied; heinous; miserable.

Verbs for Guilt
accept—; adduce—; ascertain—; betray—; blush with—; conceal—; exhibit—; experi¬ence a sense of—; expose—; hide—; incur —; induce—; measure—; prove—; repudiate—; reveal—; shoulder—; take—; uncover—; —attends; —dishonors; —shames.

Thesaurus
blame, blameworthiness, contriteness, contrition, crime, criminality, culpability, fault, feloniousness, guiltiness, misconduct, offense, onus, regret, remorse, repentance, responsibility, self-condemnation, self-reproach, shame, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, wrongdoing

Etymology
gylt:

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, خطء,  إثم,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: culpabilitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 罪狀, 罪状, 罪疚,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: süü
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბრალი (brali)
 * German:
 * Greek: ενοχή (enochē)
 * Hebrew: אשמה
 * Hindi:, कसूर
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ciontacht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:


 * Malay: bersalah
 * Malay: bersalah
 * Malayalam: കുറ്റബോധം (kuttabodham)
 * Mongolian: гэм
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Papiamentu: kulpa
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: kasalanan
 * Telugu: అపరాధభావన (aparaadhabhaavana)
 * Thai: ความรู้สึกผิด, ตราบาป
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: điều sai quấy
 * Welsh: euogrwydd
 * West Frisian: skuld
 * Yiddish: שולד
 * Yucatec: kuch


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: syyllisyydentunne,
 * French: sentiment de culpabilité
 * German: Schuldgefühl
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: syyllisyydentunne,
 * French: sentiment de culpabilité
 * German: Schuldgefühl


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 罪悪感
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, чувство вины
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, чувство вины
 * Russian:, чувство вины


 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:


 * Italian:
 * Malay: bersalah
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, виновность
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, виновность
 * Russian:, виновность


 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, виновность
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, виновность
 * Russian:, виновность