guilty
- having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
- characterized by, connected with, or involving guilt: guilty intent.
- having or showing a sense of guilt, whether real or imagined: a guilty conscience.
Origin of guilty
Synonyms for guilty
Related Words for guiltier
responsible, wrong, liable, culpable, sorry, remorseful, convicted, caught, censurable, chargeable, condemned, conscience-stricken, contrite, criminal, damned, delinquent, depraved, doomed, erring, evilExamples from the Web for guiltier
Historical Examples of guiltier
If he'd been caught in the act of borin' into the bond safe he couldn't have looked any guiltier.
Torchy As A PaSewell Ford
I may make myself worse an' guiltier; but unhappier I cannot be.
The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish FamineWilliam Carleton
The guiltier Countess was joined in the accusation, and committed in April, 1616.
Sir Walter RaleghWilliam Stebbing
If he returns to darkness, his darkness is blacker and guiltier than before.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the GalatiansG. G. Findlay
You have been guilty of great crimes, but you will be guiltier of a greater and a darker still.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of BallytrainWilliam Carleton
guilty
- responsible for an offence or misdeed
- law having committed an offence or adjudged to have done sothe accused was found guilty
- plead guilty law (of a person charged with an offence) to admit responsibility; confess
- of, showing, or characterized by guilta guilty smile; guilty pleasures
Word Origin and History for guiltier
guilty
Old English gyltig, from gylt (see guilt (n.)). Of conscience, feelings, etc., 1590s. Meaning "person who is guilty" is from 1540s. To plead not guilty is from 15c.; to plead guilty is 19c., though, as OED notes, "Guilty is technically not a plea, but a confession."