sinful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sin=ful
• COUNT in NET: 60 in 60 verses (in OT : 54 in 54 verses) (in NT : 6 in 6 verses)

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.

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, wrongful

ROGET 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.