Synonyms of the word delinquent


DELINQUENTDERELICT - DUE - GUILTY - INCORRIGIBLE - NEGLECTFUL - NEGLIGENT - OFFENDER - OVERDUE - OWED - REMISS - WRONGDOER

delinquent

  • adj. Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
  • adj. Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
  • n. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • n. (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles…

derelict

  • adj. Abandoned, forsaken; given up by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated,…
  • adj. Negligent in performing a duty.
  • adj. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
  • n. Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
  • n. (dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
  • n. A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and…

due

  • adj. Owed or owing.
  • adj. Appropriate.
  • adj. Scheduled; expected.
  • adj. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
  • adj. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
  • adv. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
  • n. Deserved acknowledgment.
  • n. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
  • n. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality…
  • n. Right; just title or claim.

guilty

  • adj. Responsible for a dishonest act.
  • adj. (law) Judged to have committed a crime.
  • adj. Having a sense of guilt.
  • adj. Blameworthy.
  • n. (law) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
  • n. (law) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
  • n. One who is declared guilty of a crime.

incorrigible

  • adj. Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
  • adj. Incurably depraved; not reformable.
  • adj. Impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
  • adj. Unmanageable.
  • adj. Determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.
  • adj. (archaic) Incurable.
  • n. An incorrigibly bad individual.

neglectful

  • adj. Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention.

negligent

  • adj. Careless, without appropriate or sufficient attention.
  • adj. (law) Culpable due to negligence.

offender

  • n. One who gives or causes offense.
  • n. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

overdue

  • adj. Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.

owed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of owe.
  • adj. That owes.

remiss

  • adj. At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.
  • adj. Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity;…

wrongdoer

  • n. Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.

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