Definitions for Criminal
ˈkrɪm ə nlCrim·i·nal

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactoradjective

   someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

2. condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, viciousadjective

   bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

   "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"

3. criminaladjective

   guilty of crime or serious offense

   "criminal in the sight of God and man"

4. criminal, feloniousadjective

   involving or being or having the nature of a crime

   "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"

Wiktionary(1.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. criminalnoun

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

2. criminaladjective

   Being against the law; forbidden by law.

3. criminaladjective

   Guilty of breaking the law.

4. criminaladjective

   Of or relating to crime.

5. criminaladjective

   Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.

   Printing such asinine opinions without rebuttal is criminal, even when not libel!

6. criminaladjective

   Of or relating to crime control, notably penal law.

   His criminal record shows his resistance to all crime prevention and - repression.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Criminaladjective

   Etymology: from crime.

   1. Faulty; contrary to right; contrary to duty; contrary to law.

   Live thou, and to thy mother dead attest,
   That clear she died from blemish criminal. Fairy Quen, b. ii.

   What we approve in our friend, we can hardly be induced to think criminal in ourselves. John Rogers, Serm. iv.

   2. Guilty; tainted with crime; not innocent.

   The neglect of any of the relative duties, render us criminal in the sight of God. John Rogers, Sermons.

   3. Not civil; as a criminal prosecution.

2. Criminalnoun

   Etymology: from crime.

   1. A man accused.

   Was ever criminal forbid to plead?
   Curb your ill-manner’d zeal. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

   2. A man guilty of a crime

   All three persons, that had held chief place of authority in their countries; all three ruined, not by war, or by any other disaster, but by justice and sentence, as delinquents and criminals. Francis Bacon.

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Criminaladjective

   guilty of crime or sin

2. Criminaladjective

   involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness

3. Criminaladjective

   relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code

4. Criminalnoun

   one who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon

5. Etymology: [L. criminalis, fr. crimen: cf. F. criminel. See Crime.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Criminal

   Criminal is a 2004 American film based upon the Argentine film Nine Queens. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, it stars John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Maeve Quinlan and is a production of Section Eight, the production company of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney.

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. criminal

   One who does by illegal means what all the rest of us do legally.

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1. criminal

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Criminal' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2278

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Criminal' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4635

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Criminal' in Nouns Frequency: #2155

4. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Criminal' in Adjectives Frequency: #304

How to pronounce Criminal?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Criminal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Criminal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Criminal in a Sentence

1. Will Durst:

   Criminal lawyer. Or is that redundant?

2. Thomas Homan:

   When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect the public safety and carry out its mission.

3. Andrew Cuomo:

   We must also end the needless and unjust criminal convictions and the debilitating criminal stigma.

4. Kermit Warren:

   I'm relieved that I will finally get my hard-earned savings back after a year of suffering, but what happened to me was wrong. The officers and prosecutors treated me like a criminal when all I was trying to do was improve my business and my life. For a year, they've left me struggling to survive a pandemic and a hurricane without my savings. I did nothing wrong, but until the law is changed so that everyone is protected, I am not going to have cash in my house anymore.

5. Chief August Fons:

   A person may leave an infant with a staff of a safe haven site without being subjected to criminal prosecution for abandonment or abuse if the infant was born within 90 days of being left at the safe haven site, as determined within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, and not left in a condition that would constitute abandonment or abuse of a child.

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