English > guilty: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act. |
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| Examples | - "guilty of murder"
- "the guilty person"
- "secret guilty deeds"
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| Narrower | at fault | deserving blame |
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| blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable | deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious |
| bloodguilty | Guilty of murder or bloodshed |
| chargeable, indictable | liable to be accused / accused, or cause for such liability |
| conscience-smitten | affected by conscience |
| criminal | Guilty of crime or serious offense |
| delinquent | Guilty of a misdeed |
| finable, fineable | liable to a fine |
| guilt-ridden | Feeling or revealing a sense of guilt |
| punishable | liable to or deserving punishment |
| red-handed | In the act of committing a crime or other reprehensible act |
| See also | inculpatory, inculpative | Causing blame to be imputed to |
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| unrighteous | not righteous |
| Opposite | innocent, guiltless, clean-handed | Free from evil or guilt |
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| Spanish | culpable |
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| Catalan | culpable |
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| Nouns | guilt, guiltiness | the state of having committed an offense |
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