guilt
21Guilt — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Guilt >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 guilt guilt guiltiness Sgm: N 1 culpability culpability Sgm: N 1 criminality criminality criminousness Sgm: N 1 deviation from rectitude deviation from rectitude &c.(improbity) 940 Sg …
22guilt — /gɪlt / (say gilt) noun 1. the fact or state of having committed an offence or crime; grave culpability, as for some conscious violation of moral or penal law. 2. a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some crime, wrong, etc., either real or… …
23guilt — /gilt/, n. 1. the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, esp. against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt. 2. a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc.,… …
24guilt — The modern senses of this word are either the legal concept which arises from someone s having infringed a law; or the feeling of remorse and culpability which may not have anything to do with a legal or even social transgression. But in the… …
25guilt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fact or sense of commission of wrong Nouns 1. guilt, guiltiness, culpability, chargeability, criminality, improbity, sinfulness (see badness). See accusation. 2. (act of doing wrong) misconduct,… …
26guilt — [OE] Guilt is a strictly English word; no other Germanic, or indeed Indo European language has it, and it is not clear where it came from. One theory is that, like guild and yield, it comes ultimately from Germanic *gelth ‘pay’, and originally… …
27guilt — noun 1) the proof of his guilt Syn: culpability, guiltiness, blameworthiness; wrongdoing, wrong, criminality, misconduct, sin Ant: innocence 2) a terrible feeling of guilt Syn …
28guilt — noun 1) the proof of his guilt Syn: culpability, blameworthiness, responsibility 2) a terrible feeling of guilt Syn: remorse, shame, regret, contrition, self reproach, a guilty conscience • …
29guilt — [gɪlt] noun [U] 1) a feeling of being ashamed and sorry because you have done something wrong The failure of the company left her with an overwhelming sense of guilt.[/ex] 2) the fact that someone has committed a crime The court will decide on… …
30guilt — [[t]gɪlt[/t]] n. 1) the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, esp. against moral or penal law; culpability: to admit one s guilt in a robbery[/ex] 2) a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense,… …
