Felon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Law One who has committed a felony.
  • n. Archaic An evil person.
  • adj. Archaic Evil; cruel.
  • n. A painful purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail. Also called whitlow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who has committed a felony.
  • n. A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
  • n. A bacterial infection of the pad at the end of a finger or toe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A person who has committed a felony.
  • n. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
  • n. A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
  • adj. Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A wicked person; a cruel, fierce person; one guilty of heinous crimes.
  • n. In law, a person who has committed a felony. The term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed.
  • n. Felony.
  • n. Synonyms Criminal, convict, malefactor, culprit, outlaw.
  • Wicked; malignant; malicious; treacherous; proceeding from a depraved heart.
  • Obtained by felony or crime; of goods, stolen.
  • Wretched; forlorn.
  • n. In medicine:
  • n. An acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of the finger or toe, especially of the distal phalanx, generally seated near the nail; paronychia; whitlow.
  • n. A sort of inflammation in quadrupeds, similar to whitlow in man.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
  • n. a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    infection   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    convict    criminal    culprit    malefactor    malignant    fierce    malicious    cruel    traitorous    disloyal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chelan    Ellen    Helen    Hellen    Magellan    Mellon    Snellen    Whelan    bellon    mellon   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    malefactor    murderer    offender    traitor    drunkard    culprit    robber    desperado    outlaw    impostor