criminal
Against the law; forbidden by law.
Other meanings
Guilty of breaking the law.
Of or relating to crime or penal law.
“His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.”
Related words
- anticriminal
- archcriminal
- criminaldom
- criminalese
- criminaless
- criminalise
- criminalish
- criminalism
- criminalistic
- criminalization
- criminaloid
- criminigger
Word history
From Latin "crimen".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “criminal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.