criminal

1. 1.

   someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

   Synonymsfeloncrookoutlawmalefactor

   Broaderprincipal

   Narroweraccessoryarsonistblackmailerbootleggerbriberconspiratordesperadofugitivegangsterhighbinder

Other forms of criminal

plural

criminals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about criminal

What does criminal mean?

criminal means "bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in criminal?

criminal has 3 syllables: crim-i-nal. The stress falls on "crim". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪmənəl/.

What is another word for criminal?

Close synonyms include condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious, felonious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is criminal a common word?

criminal is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.