Synonyms for Criminal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • criminal.
  •bad (adjective)
  • wicked.
  •crooked (adjective)
  • untruthful,
  • Double dealing,
  • double-dealing.
  •delinquent (adjective)
  • more offending,
  • dis regardful,
  • more defaultant,
  • de-relict,
  • more procrastinating,
  • most defaultant,
  • redhanded,
  • re-prehensible,
  • over due,
  • more behind,
  • de relict,
  • most procrastinating,
  • un-paid,
  • most behind,
  • re prehensible,
  • unpaid,
  • un paid,
  • over-due,
  • red handed,
  • dis-regardful,
  • most offending,
  • neglectful,
  • lax.
  •erring (adjective)
  • most blundering,
  • more blundering.
  •fraudulent (adjective)
  • more swindling,
  • most bamboozling,
  • most swindling,
  • more bamboozling.
  •fugitive (adjective)
  • running away,
  • evanescent,
  • wanted,
  • impermanent,
  • fugacious,
  • lamster,
  • Escaping,
  • on the lam.
  •guilty (adjective)
  • on head,
  • on one's head,
  • Accusable,
  • in the wrong,
  • convictable,
  • out of line,
  • in error.
  •illegal (adjective)
  • black-market,
  • bootleg,
  • unauthorized,
  • not legal,
  • unwarrantable,
  • unwarranted,
  • forbidden,
  • illegitimate,
  • actionable,
  • not approved,
  • extralegal,
  • verboten,
  • under the table,
  • against the law,
  • unlicensed,
  • taboo,
  • unjust,
  • outside the law,
  • offensive,
  • unconstitutional.
  •illicit (adjective)
  • in violation law,
  • contrary law.
  •larcenous (adjective)
  • light-fingered,
  • Piratic,
  • plunderous,
  • sticky-fingered,
  • kleptomaniacal,
  • Spoliative.
  •lawless (adjective)
  • un-civilized,
  • dis-orderly,
  • in-fringing,
  • un-cultivated,
  • more anarchistic,
  • more recusant,
  • dis ordered,
  • most recusant,
  • non compliant,
  • most piratical,
  • most anarchic,
  • un tamed,
  • more anarchical,
  • most anarchical,
  • most terrorizing,
  • untamed,
  • dis-ordered,
  • un-tamed,
  • more terrorizing,
  • more piratical,
  • most anarchistic,
  • in fringing,
  • dis obedient,
  • un civilized,
  • more unpeaceful,
  • dis-obedient,
  • more anarchic,
  • in-subordinate,
  • un-restrained,
  • in subordinate,
  • non conformist,
  • most infringing,
  • un-peaceful,
  • most unpeaceful,
  • un peaceful,
  • more infringing,
  • dis orderly,
  • un cultivated.
  •lawless, felonious (adjective)
  • corrupt,
  • villainous,
  • immoral,
  • vicious,
  • hung up,
  • iniquitous,
  • scandalous,
  • wildcat,
  • bent,
  • heavy,
  • smoking gun,
  • racket,
  • dirty,
  • senseless,
  • unrighteous,
  • peccant,
  • Caught,
  • off base,
  • culpable.
  •miscreant (adjective)
  • un-healthy,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un healthy,
  • most rascally,
  • de-generate,
  • un healthier,
  • more rascally,
  • un healthiest,
  • in famous,
  • de generate.
  •murderous (adjective)
  • slaughterous,
  • Sapping,
  • sanguineous,
  • feller,
  • sanguinary.
  •nefarious (adjective)
  • de-testable,
  • de testable.
  •outlawed (adjective)
  • out-lawed,
  • out lawed.
  •outrageous (adjective)
  • more debauching,
  • most disgracing,
  • most debauching,
  • more shaming,
  • beastliest,
  • more debasing,
  • dis gracing,
  • un-speakable,
  • beastlier,
  • de-basing,
  • more depraving,
  • un godliest,
  • un-godlier,
  • dis graceful,
  • dis-graceful,
  • un bearable,
  • un-godliest,
  • in human,
  • de basing,
  • most shaming,
  • un godlier,
  • un speakable,
  • un-godly,
  • dis-gracing,
  • un-bearable,
  • in-human,
  • more disgracing,
  • un godly,
  • most depraving,
  • most debasing.
  •sanguinary (adjective)
  • bloody minded.
  •unconscionable (adjective)
  • un just,
  • more amoral,
  • most amoral,
  • un holy,
  • un holiest,
  • un-just,
  • un reasonable,
  • un-juster,
  • un-holier,
  • un justest,
  • un-due,
  • un-justest,
  • un conscionable,
  • un-holy,
  • un ethical,
  • un duest,
  • un-holiest,
  • un-ethical,
  • un-duest,
  • in-ordinate,
  • un due,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un-duer,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un juster,
  • un holier.
  •unconstitutional (adjective)
  • un-constitutional,
  • un constitutional.
  •unfair (adjective)
  • more unrightful,
  • dis-criminatory,
  • un-rightful,
  • un-sporting,
  • onesided,
  • in-equitable,
  • un fairer,
  • most cheating,
  • un fair,
  • more cheating,
  • un-justifiable,
  • in equitable,
  • uncalledfor,
  • un-fair,
  • most unsporting,
  • one sided,
  • in-excusable,
  • un rightful,
  • un fairest,
  • un-fairest,
  • dis creditable,
  • un-fairer,
  • in excusable,
  • un justifiable,
  • dis criminatory,
  • most unrightful,
  • un sporting,
  • more unsporting,
  • dis-creditable.
  •unlawful (adjective)
  • more under the counter,
  • more under-the-counter,
  • un lawful,
  • un-lawful,
  • most under-the-counter,
  • most under the counter.
  •wicked (adjective)
  • black,
  • shocking,
  • debauched,
  • sadistic,
  • Misdoing,
  • depraved,
  • indecent,
  • sinful,
  • base,
  • debased,
  • wrongdoing,
  • improper,
  • damnable,
  • obnoxious,
  • perverse,
  • evildoing,
  • sinister,
  • lawbreaking,
  • blameworthy.

• n.

  •
  • shady,
  • clandestine.
  •
  • Crimes,
  • amoral,
  • deviant,
  • perverted,
  • unethical,
  • sordid,
  • gross.
  •
  • forensic,
  • common-law.
  •
  • juvenile,
  • ringleader,
  • underworld,
  • accomplice.
  •bad person (noun)
  • lecher,
  • jezebel,
  • malingerer,
  • blackguard,
  • knave,
  • pervert,
  • bad guy,
  • rapscallion,
  • traitor,
  • swine,
  • rascal,
  • slattern,
  • scoundrel,
  • backslider,
  • degenerate,
  • heel,
  • scamp,
  • shyster,
  • hog,
  • pig,
  • reprobate,
  • slob.
  •bandit (noun)
  • marauder,
  • foragers,
  • gunperson,
  • pirate,
  • ravagers,
  • highwayperson,
  • pillagers,
  • holdup person,
  • Ravager,
  • Forager,
  • pillager.
  •condemnable (noun)
  • condemnable.
  •criminal (noun)
  • reprehensible,
  • deplorable,
  • illegal,
  • crook,
  • felonious.
  •culprit (noun)
  • guilty parties,
  • EXCON,
  • ex con,
  • ex-cons,
  • yardbirds,
  • excons,
  • ex cons.
  •deceiver (noun)
  • counterfeiter,
  • fraud,
  • imposter,
  • con man,
  • con artist,
  • charlatan,
  • cheat,
  • fake,
  • phony,
  • Defrauder,
  • forger,
  • deceiver.
  •deserter (noun)
  • Escaper,
  • escapee,
  • shirker,
  • backsliders,
  • recreants,
  • no-show,
  • escapers,
  • hookey player,
  • no show.
  •enemy (noun)
  • Asperser,
  • emulator,
  • seditionist,
  • seditionists,
  • bad person,
  • slanderer,
  • slanderers,
  • Enemies,
  • defamers,
  • vilifier,
  • other side,
  • prosecutor,
  • backbiter,
  • prosecutors,
  • disputants,
  • backbiters,
  • traducer,
  • traducers,
  • saboteurs,
  • defilers,
  • defamer,
  • arch-enemy,
  • saboteur,
  • revolutionaries,
  • defiler,
  • invaders,
  • emulators,
  • Calumniator,
  • disputant.
  •evildoer (noun)
  • gunman,
  • demon,
  • bully,
  • brute,
  • ogre,
  • evildoer,
  • vampire,
  • terrorist,
  • desperado,
  • fiend,
  • vulture,
  • cutthroat,
  • monster,
  • viper,
  • tyrant,
  • snake,
  • law breaker,
  • vandal.
  •gangster (noun)
  • mobster,
  • bruiser,
  • bruisers,
  • mafioso,
  • goon,
  • member of the family,
  • Mafiosi,
  • hit person.
  •incendiary (noun)
  • rabblerouser,
  • pyro maniac,
  • pyro-maniacs,
  • rabble rouser,
  • pyro-maniac,
  • pyro maniacs.
  •intruder (noun)
  • Interferer,
  • gatecrasher,
  • trespasser,
  • Obtruder,
  • interrupters,
  • interrupter,
  • gatecrashers,
  • interferers,
  • gate-crasher.
  •juvenile delinquent (noun)
  • gangbanger,
  • youthful offender,
  • punk kid.
  •looter (noun)
  • ransacker,
  • spoilers,
  • ransackers,
  • spoiler.
  •miscreant (noun)
  • re-probates,
  • out casts,
  • out-casts,
  • out cast,
  • out-cast.
  •mobster (noun)
  • wiseguy,
  • godfather.
  •murderer (noun)
  • hit and runs,
  • hit-and-runs,
  • hit and run,
  • manslaughterers,
  • trigger persons,
  • trigger people.
  •offender (noun)
  • guilty persons,
  • guilty people.
  •outlaw (noun)
  • wrong numbers.
  •perpetrator (noun)
  • offender.
  •person who breaks the law (noun)
  • convict,
  • lawbreaker,
  • con,
  • Black Marketeer.
  •prisoner (noun)
  • lifer,
  • captive,
  • loser,
  • internee,
  • defendant,
  • recidivist,
  • prisoner,
  • suspect.
  •public enemy (noun)
  • public enemy number ones,
  • public-enemy,
  • universal foes,
  • malevolents.
  •rogue (noun)
  • neer do well,
  • mis chiefs,
  • ne'er do well,
  • mis chief,
  • neer-do-well.
  •ruffian (noun)
  • tough guys.
  •thief (noun)
  • larcener,
  • pickpocket,
  • Grafter,
  • swindler,
  • prowler,
  • housebreaker,
  • hijacker,
  • burglar,
  • mugger,
  • cat burglar,
  • poacher,
  • lifter,
  • Filcher.
  •thug (noun)
  • professional killers,
  • gang members.
  •villain (noun)
  • antihero,
  • profligates,
  • anti-heroes,
  • mischiefmaker,
  • antiheroes,
  • anti-hero.
  •wise guy (noun)
  • wiseacre,
  • wisenheimer,
  • smart ass,
  • smartypants,
  • wiseass,
  • wiseacres.

• v.

  •destroying (verb)
  • murderous.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • moonshiner,
  • gangster,
  • antitrust,
  • destroyer,
  • extraterritorial,
  • out-of-court,
  • mandatory,
  • legislative,
  • retrospective,
  • effective,
  • prescribed,
  • statutory,
  • first offender,
  • tsotsi,
  • extrajudicial,
  • law-making,
  • liable,
  • enabling,
  • juridical,
  • raider,
  • retroactive,
  • undefended,
  • Corrupter,
  • judicial,
  • criminally.
  •
  • civil,
  • hood,
  • unproven,
  • valid,
  • undesirable,
  • through.
  •
  • gang.
  •
  • void,
  • invalid.
  •abductor
  • kidnapper.
  •aggressor
  • attacker.
  •bootlegger
  • smuggler.
  •felon
  • yegg.
  •incendiary
  • arsonist.
  •indefensible
  • indictable.
  •malefactor
  • Misdoer.
  •Other relevant words:
  • wrongheaded,
  • roughneck,
  • malfeasant,
  • irritate,
  • jus gentium,
  • underhand,
  • malfeasor,
  • Crown law,
  • monstrous,
  • sob,
  • law of nations,
  • not kosher,
  • indirect,
  • scurvy,
  • evil,
  • bad hat,
  • Black-hearted,
  • censurable,
  • chargeable,
  • s.o.b.,
  • scalawag,
  • hit man,
  • undutiful,
  • shameful,
  • commend,
  • horrid,
  • rotter,
  • rowdy,
  • under-the-table,
  • distressing,
  • diabolical,
  • briber,
  • bounder,
  • irreverent,
  • buccaneer,
  • embezzler,
  • heinous,
  • abductor,
  • reptile,
  • banned,
  • misbranded,
  • sad,
  • flagrant,
  • inmate,
  • two-timer,
  • crafty,
  • encroach,
  • gruesome,
  • dishonest,
  • hellish,
  • civil law,
  • inauspicious,
  • incorrect,
  • impious,
  • ignominious,
  • not done,
  • international law,
  • violate,
  • revolutionary,
  • brutal,
  • transgress,
  • faulty,
  • Unduteous,
  • extortionate,
  • sinner,
  • untoward,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • dog,
  • equity,
  • offend,
  • sacrilegious,
  • opprobrious,
  • at fault,
  • injudicious,
  • excessive,
  • invade,
  • gunsel,
  • underhanded,
  • get,
  • mischievous,
  • unconscientious,
  • infernal,
  • injure,
  • commit,
  • unsavory,
  • penal,
  • unspeakable,
  • indecorous,
  • abominable,
  • intrude,
  • consecrate,
  • treacherous,
  • blackmailer,
  • implicated,
  • unpardonable,
  • unsanctioned,
  • out-of-line,
  • wretched,
  • malefic,
  • misappropriated,
  • Triable,
  • terrible,
  • scallywag,
  • unworthy,
  • contraband,
  • venal,
  • cruel,
  • infringe,
  • black market,
  • contrabandist,
  • jail bird,
  • diabolic,
  • break,
  • rank,
  • confide,
  • canon law,
  • ill,
  • hustler,
  • arraignable,
  • quisling,
  • repeater,
  • blackguardly,
  • inappropriate,
  • gaolbird,
  • reproachable,
  • hurtful,
  • immorally,
  • unseemly,
  • irreligious,
  • probationer,
  • sorry,
  • varlet,
  • dedicate,
  • off-color,
  • appalling,
  • doubtful,
  • evil-doer,
  • high,
  • skinhead,
  • profligate,
  • perfidious,
  • insidious,
  • off-base,
  • muscle,
  • proscribed,
  • wickedly,
  • rotten,
  • betrayer,
  • abnormal,
  • prohibited,
  • grisly,
  • apply,
  • Interdicted,
  • Justiciable,
  • black hat,
  • anomic,
  • low,
  • exorbitant,
  • Jus Civile,
  • deuce,
  • dissolute,
  • foul,
  • knavish,
  • unrepentant,
  • pitiful,
  • deceitful,
  • tricky,
  • unfortunate,
  • Picaroon,
  • Impeachable,
  • unfitting,
  • deceptive,
  • involved,
  • radical,
  • bandit,
  • unprincipled,
  • conspirator,
  • hangdog,
  • guileful,
  • flawed,
  • unfit,
  • miserable,
  • execrable,
  • PERP,
  • mug,
  • Disallowed,
  • incorrigible,
  • rat,
  • dreadful,
  • gallows bird,
  • assign,
  • conscienceless,
  • twist,
  • malicious,
  • outlawed,
  • brigand,
  • dear,
  • desecrate,
  • dark,
  • traitorous,
  • vile,
  • illegally,
  • unregenerate,
  • aberrant,
  • lapsed,
  • torpedo,
  • unsuitable,
  • Fiendish,
  • loathsome,
  • rough,
  • cur,
  • caitiff,
  • awful,
  • lamentable,
  • abusive,
  • ecclesiastical law,
  • feloniously,
  • unscrupulous,
  • disgraceful,
  • blamable,
  • irregular,
  • unforgivable,
  • outlandish,
  • savage,
  • atrocious,
  • duplicitous,
  • egregious,
  • sharp,
  • whitlow,
  • malevolent,
  • defective,
  • ravish,
  • guerilla,
  • profane,
  • bomber,
  • undue,
  • cad,
  • dubious,
  • magisterial,
  • unofficial,
  • Inculpated,
  • anarchist,
  • dishonourable,
  • inferior,
  • lex mercatoria,
  • administrative law,
  • commit crime,
  • larcenous,
  • to blame,
  • arrant,
  • nonlegal,
  • corrupted,
  • nihilist,
  • demonic,
  • Double dealer,
  • subversive,
  • fishy,
  • bend,
  • faithless,
  • bow,
  • blighter,
  • contravene,
  • nonconstitutional,
  • looter,
  • prohibitive,
  • statute law,
  • insupportable,
  • desperate criminal,
  • artful,
  • wretch,
  • scoundrelly,
  • ungodly,
  • shifty,
  • baddie,
  • curve,
  • Misdemeanant,
  • sinning,
  • questionable,
  • inside person,
  • devious,
  • ill-gotten,
  • Reprovable,
  • horrible,
  • entrust,
  • unholy,
  • consign,
  • slippery eel,
  • ne'er-do-well,
  • misfeasor,
  • baddy,
  • slippery,
  • arch,
  • shameless,
  • woeful,
  • dastardly,
  • infamous,
  • mischief-maker,
  • inexpedient,
  • soldier,
  • revert to,
  • work against,
  • bad actor,
  • venomous,
  • renegade,
  • Ill-got,
  • unskillful,
  • grim,
  • beastly,
  • impermissible,
  • naughty,
  • suspicious,
  • unallowed,
  • perpetrate,
  • Lex,
  • hideous,
  • evasive,
  • dishonorable,
  • disobey.

Paraphrases for Criminal:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    felon.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    jurisdictional, evil.
  • Proper noun, singular
    infractions, crops.
  • Noun, plural
    matters, investigations, Charges, Adults, prisoners, seniors, corners, goods.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    matters.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    penal, crime-related, delinquent, punishable, crime, indictable, murderous, punitive, reprehensible, wrongful, malicious, judicial, criminalized, guilty, heinous, anti-crime, law-breaking, sinful, repressive.
  • Proper noun, singular
    penal, Crimes, crime, judicial.
  • Noun, plural
    courts, Crimes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    penal, criminal-law, crime, gangster, perpetrator, villain, felony, PERP, arson, crook, mobster.

Antonyms for Criminal:

• adj.

  • lawless, felonious
    lawful, Uncorrupt, ethical, good, kind, authorized, noble, righteous, blessed, proper, legal, moral, correct, pure, legitimate, right.
  • Other antonyms:
    licensed, virtuous, encouraged, endorsed, guiltless, approved, permitted, supported, clean-handed, sanctioned, meritorious, nocturnal, decorous, seemly, nightly, suggested.

• n.

  • person who breaks the law
    police, law.

Homophones for Criminal:

• charnel, corneal, corn oil, chrome yellow, cherimolla, coronal, cromwell, cornel, chari-nile, criminally, crenel, corneille, corn lily, carnal, creamy-yellow, cornmeal, caramel, carinal, criminal law, cranial, crenelle, cornwall, coronilla, ceremonial, ceremonially, Carron Oil, cornell.

Hypernym for Criminal:

• n.

  • person
    hijacker, racketeer, incendiary, gangster's moll, traitor, mobster, parolee, contrabandist, goon, probationer, extortionist, jail bird, bootlegger, machinator, gaolbird, plotter, pusher, runner, fugitive from justice, gun moll, hoodlum, accessary, kidnapper, treasonist, desperado, extortioner, suborner, firebug, repeater, Kidnaper, moonshiner, arsonist, jailbird, highbinder, gangster, thug, snatcher, blackmailer, tough, manslayer, peddler, moon-curser, abductor, thief, strong-armer, liquidator, law offender, scofflaw, drug peddler, stealer, briber, desperate criminal, drug dealer, lawbreaker, highjacker, smuggler, drug trafficker, habitual criminal, toughie, conspirator, violator, accessory, rapist, murderer, moon curser, punk, fugitive, coconspirator, mafioso, recidivist, hood, raper, moll.

Hyponym for Criminal:

• n.

  • person
    principal.