desperate criminal

1. 1.

   a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)

   Synonymsdesperado

   Broadercriminal

   United States

Questions about desperate criminal

What does desperate criminal mean?

desperate criminal means "a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)".

What is another word for desperate criminal?

Close synonyms include desperado. 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 desperate criminal a common word?

desperate criminal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.