Dictionary Entry
guilty
guilty is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.
- 2superlative
Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.
- 3superlative
Conscious; cognizant.
- 4superlative
Condemned to payment.
- 5adjective
showing a sense of guilt- Eric Linklater
"a guilty look"
"the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"
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- 6adjective
responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
"guilty of murder"
"the guilty person"
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