sinning

1. 1.

   transgressing a moral or divine law

   “if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most sinning soul alive”

   Similaroffending

Other forms of sinning

plural

sinnings·

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 sinning

What does sinning mean?

sinning means "an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sinning?

sinning has 2 syllables: sin-ning. The stress falls on "sin". In IPA it is /ˈsɪnɪŋ/.

What is another word for sinning?

Close synonyms include sin. 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 sinning a common word?

sinning is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.