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criminal
English
Etymology
From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??m?n?l/
Adjective
criminal (comparative more criminal, superlative most criminal)
- Against the law; forbidden by law.
- Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.
- Guilty of breaking the law.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- Of or relating to crime or penal law.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject […] in some cases, were liable to criminal process.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "criminal" is often applied: law, justice, court, procedure, prosecution, intent, case, record, act, action, behavior, code, offence, liability, investigation, conduct, defense, trial, history, responsibility, lawyer, tribunal, appeal, process, background, mind, conspiracy, evidence, gang, organization, underworld, jurisprudence, offender, jury, police, past, group, punishment, attorney, violence, report, career, psychology.
Synonyms
- crimeful
- illegal
- delictuous
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
criminal (plural criminals)
- A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
- Synonyms: lawbreaker, offender, perpetrator
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:criminal
Hypernyms
- person
Derived terms
- cybercriminal
- thought criminal
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin crimin?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /k?i.mi?nal/
Adjective
criminal (masculine and feminine plural criminals)
- criminal (against the law)
- criminal (guilty of breaking the law)
- criminal (of or relating to crime)
Derived terms
Noun
criminal m or f (plural criminals)
- criminal (a person who is guilty of a crime)
Related terms
- crim
Further reading
- “criminal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “criminal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “criminal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “criminal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin or Juridical Latin crimin?lis, from Latin cr?men.
Adjective
criminal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular criminale)
- criminal; illegal; against the law
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin or Juridical Latin crimin?lis (“criminal”), from Latin cr?men (“verdict; crime”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /k?i.mi.?na?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /k?i.mi.?naw/
Adjective
criminal m or f (plural criminais, not comparable)
- (law) criminal (of or relating to crime or penal law)
Related terms
Further reading
- “criminal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French criminel, Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kri.mi?nal]
Noun
criminal m (plural criminali, feminine equivalent criminal?)
- criminal, felon, perpetrator, offender, lawbreaker
- murderer, slayer
- cutthroat, thug
Declension
Adjective
criminal m or n (feminine singular criminal?, masculine plural criminali, feminine and neuter plural criminale)
- criminal, felonious, lawbreaking
- murderous, homicidal
- cutthroat
Declension
Related terms
- criminalitate
Adverb
criminal
- criminally
Related terms
- crim?
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin or Juridical Latin crimin?lis (“criminal”), from Latin cr?men (“verdict; crime”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?imi?nal/, [k?i.mi?nal]
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
criminal (plural criminales)
- criminal
Derived terms
- criminalmente
- criminalista
- criminalizar
Noun
criminal m or f (plural criminales)
- criminal
Related terms
- crimen
- criminalidad
- acriminar
Further reading
- “criminal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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deplorable
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déplorable, from Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis., from d?- +? pl?r? +? -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??pl????b??/
Adjective
deplorable (comparative more deplorable, superlative most deplorable)
- Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
- To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- There was a youth and his mother, and a maidservant on board, who were going passengers, and thinking the ship was ready to sail, unhappily came on board the evening before the hurricane began; and having no provisions of their own left, they were in a more deplorable condition than the rest.
- 1840, Public Documents of the State of Maine, "Report Relating to the Insane Hospital", Committee on Public Buildings
- If, however, the early symptoms of insanity be neglected till the brain becomes accustomed to the irregular actions of disease, or till organic changes take place from the early violence of those actions, then the case becomes hopeless of cure. In this situation, in too many cases, the victim of this deplorable malady is cast off by his friends, thrust into a dungeon or in chains, there to remain till the shattered intellect shall exhaust all its remaining energies in perpetual raving and violence, till it sinks into hopeless and deplorable idiocy.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Synonyms
- pathetic
Translations
Noun
deplorable (plural deplorables)
- A person or thing that is to be deplored.
- 1970, Esquire (volume 74)
- […] heralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.
- 1970, Esquire (volume 74)
- (neologism, US politics) A Trumpist conservative, in reference to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables".
Further reading
- deplorable at OneLook Dictionary Search
- deplorable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle French
Etymology
Late 15th century, borrowed from Latin d?pl?r?bilis.
Adjective
deplorable m or f (plural deplorables)
- deplorable (worthy of compassion)
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis, equivalent to deplorar +? -able.
Adjective
deplorable (plural deplorables)
- deplorable
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