Guilty

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: guilt=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

Guilty, a. [AS. gyltig liable. See Guilt.].

•  Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment; as, guilty of murder.  [1913 Webster]

  "They answered and said, He is guilty of death."  [1913 Webster]

  "Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife."  [1913 Webster]
•  Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.  [1913 Webster]
•  Conscious; cognizant.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]
•  Condemned to payment.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Guilty, adj. (guiltier, guiltiest)
1 culpable of or responsible for a wrong.
2 conscious of or affected by guilt (a guilty conscience; a guilty look).
3 concerning guilt (a guilty secret).
4 a (often foll. by of) having committed a (specified) offence. b Law adjudged to have committed a specified offence, esp. by a verdict in a trial.

Derivative

guiltily adv. guiltiness n.

Etymology

OE gyltig (as GUILT, -Y(1))

THESAURUS

Guilty

accountable, amiss, answerable, apologetic, arraignable, ashamed, at fault, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, conscience-stricken, contrite, criminal, culpable, delinquent, embarrassed, faulty, impeachable, impeached, implicated, incriminated, inculpated, indictable, indicted, involved, offending, peccant, penitent, red-faced, regretful, remorseful, repentant, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, responsible, rueful, sheepish, sinful, sorrowful, sorry, to blame, unholy, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

Guilty

Condemnation

N condemnation, conviction, judgment, penalty, sentence, proscription, damnation, death warrant, attainder, attainture, attaintment, condemnatory, damnatory, guilty, condemned, nonsuited, self-convicted, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved.

Guilt

N guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break!, capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, deed without a name, corpus delicti, guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable, in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar, cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, O would the deed were good!, responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo noce, so many laws argues so many sins.