different between criminal vs flagrant

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)

1. Against the law; forbidden by law.

   • Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (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)

1. 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)

1. criminal (against the law)
2. criminal (guilty of breaking the law)
3. criminal (of or relating to crime)

Derived terms

Noun

criminal m or f (plural criminals)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (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?)

1. criminal, felon, perpetrator, offender, lawbreaker
2. murderer, slayer
3. cutthroat, thug

Declension

Adjective

criminal m or n (feminine singular criminal?, masculine plural criminali, feminine and neuter plural criminale)

1. criminal, felonious, lawbreaking
2. murderous, homicidal
3. cutthroat

Declension

Related terms

• criminalitate

Adverb

criminal

1. 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)

1. criminal

Derived terms

• criminalmente
• criminalista
• criminalizar

Noun

criminal m or f (plural criminales)

1. criminal

Related terms

• crimen
• criminalidad
• acriminar

Further reading

• “criminal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• flagraunt (obsolete, rare)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?fle?.???nt/

Etymology 1

From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.

Adjective

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

1. Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
   • 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

     It is certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals we never entertain such an absurdity as that of passive obedience, but make allowances for resistance in the more flagrant instances of tyranny and oppression.

2. (archaic) On fire; flaming.

Synonyms

• (obvious and offensive): blatant, glaring
• (on fire): burning, flaming

Related terms

• in flagrante delicto

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin fr?grans, participle of fr?gr? (“smell, reek”)

Adjective

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

1. (obsolete) Misspelling of fragrant.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin flagr?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /fl????ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fl????an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fla???ant/

Adjective

flagrant (masculine and feminine plural flagrants)

1. flaming, burning
2. flagrant, blatant

Further reading

• “flagrant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flagrant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “flagrant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flagrant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French flagrant, from Latin flagr?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla???r?nt/
• Hyphenation: fla?grant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative flagrantst)

1. flagrant, blatant (obvious and offensive)

Inflection

French

Etymology

From Latin flagr?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.????/

Adjective

flagrant (feminine singular flagrante, masculine plural flagrants, feminine plural flagrantes)

1. flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident

Derived terms

• flagramment
• prendre en flagrant délit

Related terms

• flagrance

Further reading

• “flagrant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin flagrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fla???ant]

Adjective

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative am flagrantesten)

1. flagrant

Declension

Further reading

• “flagrant” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

fl?grant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fl?gr?

Romanian

Etymology

From French flagrant.

Adjective

flagrant m or n (feminine singular flagrant?, masculine plural flagran?i, feminine and neuter plural flagrante)

1. flagrant

Declension