guilty
/ˈɡɪl.ti/
guilty adjective: responsible for a dishonest act.
Adjective
guilty (comparative guiltier or more guilty, superlative guiltiest or most guilty)
- Responsible for a dishonest act.
- He was guilty of cheating at cards.
- I still feel guilty about having forgotten his bday.
- Antonyms:
- innocent, not guilty, blameless, clean, clean-handed, clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a whistle, clear, dovelike, guiltless
- Judged to have committed a crime.
- The guilty man was led away.
- Having a sense of guilt.
- Do you have a guilty conscience?
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- Blameworthy.
- I have a guilty secret.
- Don’t you see that we have been playing a guilty game, and have been overreached […]1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 71, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
- Synonyms:
- censurable, culpable, blameless, praiseworthy
Noun
guilty (plural guilties)
- A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
- A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
- One who is declared guilty of a crime.
- The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion, →ISBN, page 32
guilty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
guilty in Hindi
- responsible for a dishonest act
- दोषी doṣī
guilty in Tamil
- குற்றமுள்ள
guilty in Marathi
- guilty, culpable, at fault
- दोषी doṣī
guilty in Urdu
- responsible for a dishonest act
- مجرم mujrim
- judged to have committed a crime
- مجرم mujrim
More languagesFewer languages
- guilty in Bengali
- গুনাগার gunagar, দোষী dōśi
- guilty in Telugu
- దోషి
- guilty in Malayalam
- കുറ്റക്കാരനായ kuṟṟakkāranāya, കുറ്റബോധമുള്ള kuṟṟabōdhamuḷḷa
- guilty in Kannada
- ತಪ್ಪುಗಾರ, ತಪ್ಪರಿವಿಗ
- guilty in Punjabi
- ਦੋਖੀ dokhī, ਦੋਸ਼ੀ dośī
- guilty in Gujarati
- દોષિત
- guilty in Odia
- ଦୁଷ୍ଟ duṣṭa
- guilty in Sanskrit
- ऋण ṛṇa
- guilty in Assamese
- জগৰীয়া zogoria
- guilty in Nepali
- दोषी
- guilty in Arabic
- مُذْنِب muḏnib, مُذْنِبَة muḏniba
- guilty in Malay
- bersalah
- guilty in Persian
- گناهکار gonâhkâr
- guilty in Thai
- มีความผิด
- guilty in Vietnamese
- có tội, phạm tội, tội lỗi
Examples of guilty in a sentence
- The regime is guilty of mass atrocities including forced displacement and the use of chemical weapons.
- The verdict of not guilty created a true furor in the courtroom.
- It's up to the prosecution to prove that the defendant is guilty.
Synonyms of guilty
- culpable
- nocent
- censurable
- blameless
- praiseworthy
- shildy
- at fault
- blameworthy
- reprehensible
- to blame
Antonyms
- innocent
- not guilty
- blameless
- clean
- clean-handed
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a whistle
- clear
- dovelike
- guiltless
10 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Forms of guilty
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | guiltier |
| comparative | more guilty |
| superlative | guiltiest |
| superlative | most guilty |
| Noun | |
| plural | guilties |
Origin of guilty
From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.
Words formed from guilty
Phrases with guilty
Words that rhyme with guilty
Questions about guilty
- What does guilty mean?
- Guilty means responsible for a dishonest act.
- What is guilty in Hindi?
- Guilty in Hindi is दोषी (doṣī). See Guilty meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is guilty?
- Guilty can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce guilty?
- Guilty is pronounced /ˈɡɪl.ti/.
Words near guilty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: guilty (page history and authors); guilty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दोषी (Marathi) (page history and authors); গুনাগার (Bengali) (page history and authors); guilty (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); guilty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਦੋਖੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); guilty (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଦୁଷ୍ଟ (Odia) (page history and authors); জগৰীয়া (Assamese) (page history and authors); guilty (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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