'Guilty' definitions:
Definition of 'guilty'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds" [ant: clean-handed, guiltless, innocent]
adjective
Showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed]
Definition of 'Guilty'
From: GCIDE
- Guilty \Guilt"y\, a. [Compar. Gultier; superl. Guiltiest.] [AS. gyltig liable. See Guilt.]
- 1. 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; as, guilty of murder. [1913 Webster]
- They answered and said, He is guilty of death. --Matt. xxvi. 66. [1913 Webster]
- Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'guilty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accountable,
- amiss,
- answerable,
- apologetic,
- arraignable,
- ashamed,
- at fault,
- blamable,
- blameful,
- blameworthy,
- censurable,
- conscience-stricken,
- contrite,
- criminal,
- culpable,
- delinquent,
- embarrassed,
- faulty,
- impeachable,
- impeached,
- implicated,
- incriminated,
- inculpated,
- indictable,
- indicted,
- involved,
- offending,
- peccant,
- penitent,
- red-faced,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- reprehensible,
- reproachable,
- reprovable,
- responsible,
- rueful,
- sheepish,
- sinful,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- to blame,
- unholy,
- wrong