transgression

1. 1.

   the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

   “the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father”

   Synonymsevildoing

   Broaderwrongdoing

   Narrowerabominationevilvillainydepravityvicesinterrorizationoffensecrimeinside job
2. 2.

   the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

   Broadergeological phenomenon
3. 3.

   the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit

   Broaderaction

Other forms of transgression

plural

transgressions·

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 transgression

What does transgression mean?

transgression means "the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transgression?

transgression has 3 syllables: trans-gres-sion. The stress falls on "gres". In IPA it is /tɹænzˈɡɹɛʃən/.

What is another word for transgression?

Close synonyms include evildoing. 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 transgression a common word?

transgression 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.

What rhymes with transgression?

5 words rhyme with transgression. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.