sinful
/ˈsɪnfl̩/
sinful adjective: having sinned; guilty of sin.
Adjective
sinful (comparative more sinful or sinfuller, superlative most sinful or sinfullest)
- Having sinned; guilty of sin.
- Constituting a sin; morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil.
- Synonyms:
- diabolical, unholy, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful
- decadent (luxuriously self-indulgent)
- I take a whiff of the most sincerely sinful cookies in the history of the world. It’s a recipe I saw in People magazine once at the dentist's office, and Dr. Segal would not approve of its ingredients (or maybe she would, in the interest of keeping her business afloat).2018 April 10, Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah, New York City: Random House, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- epicurean, sybaritic, Babylonian, decadent, epicureal, epicureous, epicurish, hedonic, hedonistic, intemperate
sinful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sinful in Hindi
- sinful, wicked
- पापी pāpī
sinful in Tamil
- தீய
sinful in Marathi
- पापी, पापमय, पापपूर्ण
sinful in Urdu
- فاجر, فاجرہ, گناہگار, سیاہ کار
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- sinful in Bengali
- অকনিষ্ঠ ôkôniśṭhô, পাপী papi, অপরাধমূলক ôpôradhmulôk, রিষ্ট riśṭô
- sinful in Telugu
- కలుషము kaluṣamu
- sinful in Malayalam
- ദുഷ്ടത നിറഞ്ഞ, പാപിയായ, അപരാധിയായ, പാപകരമായ
- sinful in Kannada
- ಪಾಪಪೂರ್ಣ
- sinful in Punjabi
- ਕੁਕਰਮੀ kukramī, ਗੁਨਾਹਗਾਰ gunāhgār
- sinful in Gujarati
- ભ્રષ્ટ bhraṣṭ
- sinful in Odia
- ପାପପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ, ପାପୀ, ପାପମଯ଼
- sinful in Sanskrit
- कल्क kalka
- sinful in Nepali
- पापपूर्ण
Examples of sinful in a sentence
- Because I have a scrupulous conscience, I sometimes need to be reminded that not everything I do is sinful.
- In choir and cloister, gathering up dropped Syllables, mismumbled words dislodged From the liturgy by sinful clerics.
- She is powerful in that she can function as a catalyst of male desire and sinful aggression.
Synonyms of sinful
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Forms of sinful
| comparative | more sinful |
|---|---|
| comparative | sinfuller |
| superlative | most sinful |
| superlative | sinfullest |
Origin of sinful
From Middle English synful, senful, sunful, from Old English synful (“sinful, guilty, wicked, corrupt”), equivalent to sin + -ful. Compare Dutch zondevol (“sinful”), German sündevoll (“sinful”), Danish syndefuld (“sinful”), Swedish syndfull (“sinful”), Icelandic syndfullur (“sinful”).
Words formed from sinful
Words that rhyme with sinful
Questions about sinful
- What does sinful mean?
- Sinful means having sinned; guilty of sin.
- What is sinful in Hindi?
- Sinful in Hindi is पापी (pāpī). See Sinful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sinful?
- Sinful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sinful?
- Sinful is pronounced /ˈsɪnfl̩/.
Words near sinful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sinful (page history and authors); पापी (Hindi) (page history and authors); sinful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sinful (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sinful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অকনিষ্ঠ (Bengali) (page history and authors); కలుషము (Telugu) (page history and authors); sinful (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sinful (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਕੁਕਰਮੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ભ્રષ્ટ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); sinful (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कल्क (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); sinful (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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