guilty

Other forms of guilty

comparative or superlative

guiltier

comparative or superlative

guiltiest

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 guilty

What does guilty mean?

guilty means "responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guilty?

guilty has 2 syllables: guil-ty. The stress falls on "guil". In IPA it is /ˈɡɪlti/.

What is another word for guilty?

Close synonyms include hangdog, shamefaced, shamed. 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.

What is the opposite of guilty?

The recorded antonyms are innocent.

Is guilty a common word?

guilty 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.