Word Meanings - SINFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts. Piers Plowman. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Isa. i. 4. -- Sin"ful*ly, adv. -- Sin"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINFUL)

• Abandoned
• Profligate
• wicked
• vicious
• unprincipled
• reprobate
• incorrigible
• sinful
• graceless
• demoralized
• dissolute
• depraved
• bad
• licentious
• corrupt
• Criminal
• Illegal
• felonious
• culpable
• wrong
• iniquitous
• immoral
• guilty
• nefarious
• flagitious
• Erring
• Misguided
• misled
• wandering
• Peccable
• Frail
• Vile
• Cheap
• worthier
• valueless
• low
• base
• mean
• despicable
• hateful
• impure
• abandoned
• abject
• sordid
• ignoble
• villainous
• degraded
• wretched

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SINFUL)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to SINFUL)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• MISGUIDE
  Misguidance; error. Spenser.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• ERRABLENESS
  Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
• ERRHINE
  A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• MISLIKE
  Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
• MISLIN
  See MASLIN
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• ERRANTRY
  1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
• PECCABLE
  Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott.
• ABERRATE
  To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• VERRUGAS
  An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
• SERR
  To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• INERRABLE
  Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• BERRETTA
  A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics (more info) of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. tawny, red:
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• FERRIER
  A ferryman. Calthrop.
• TERRICOLAE
  A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• BISERRATE
  Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.
• HERR
  A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
• FERROCALCITE
  Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.