Delinquent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Failing to do what law or duty requires.
  • adj. Overdue in payment: a delinquent account.
  • n. A juvenile delinquent.
  • n. A person who neglects or fails to do what law or duty requires.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
  • adj. Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
  • n. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • n. a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
  • n. One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty or obligation: as, a delinquent tenant; a delinquent subscriber.
  • n. One who fails to perform a duty or discharge an obligation; one guilty of a delinquency; an offender; a culprit.
  • n. Synonyms Offender, Delinquent, (see offender); wrong-doer.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. past due; not paid at the scheduled time
  • adj. failing in what duty requires
  • n. a young offender
  • adj. guilty of a misdeed
    • Equivalent
    due    negligent    guilty   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    offender    wrongdoer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    culprit    offender    malefactor    transgressor    blamable    criminal   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    offender    criminal    malefactor    hapless    adolescent    runaway   
     
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