Word Study
sinful
CIDE DICTIONARY
sinful, a. [AAS. synfull.].
Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sinful, adj.
1 (of a person) committing sin, esp. habitually.
2 (of an act) involving or characterized by sin.
1 (of a person) committing sin, esp. habitually.
2 (of an act) involving or characterized by sin.
Derivative
sinfully adv. sinfulness n.
Etymology
OE synfull (as SIN, -FUL)
THESAURUS
sinful
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, amiss, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, black, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, corrupt, criminal, culpable, damnable, dark, delinquent, demonic, depraved, deviant, disgraceful, evil, evildoing, execrable, felonious, flagitious, flagrant, foul, godless, guilty, hardly the thing, heinous, ignominious, ill, illegal, immoral, impious, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, inauspicious, incorrect, indecorous, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, invalid, irreligious, irreverent, knavish, low, malefactory, malevolent, malfeasant, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, peccant, profane, profligate, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinister, terrible, un-Christly, unangelic, unchristian, undue, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, ungodly, unhealthy, unholy, unkind, unlawful, unpardonable, unpleasant, unrighteous, unsaintly, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unsuitable, untoward, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulROGET THESAURUS
sinful
Vice
N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.For further exploring for "sinful" in Webster Dictionary Online