Definition for Delict:

• An offense or transgression against law; ( Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.

Synonyms for Delict:

• n.

  •crime (noun)
  • malfeasance,
  • wrong,
  • wrongdoing,
  • misdemeanor,
  • break,
  • corruption,
  • misconduct,
  • unlawful act,
  • immorality,
  • villainy,
  • Peccancy,
  • case,
  • felony,
  • Malefaction,
  • evil behavior,
  • racket,
  • infraction,
  • violation,
  • outrage,
  • misdeed,
  • vice,
  • evil,
  • caper,
  • job,
  • illegality,
  • antisocial behavior,
  • lawlessness,
  • delinquency,
  • mortal sin,
  • atrocity,
  • sneak,
  • criminalities,
  • fault,
  • fast one,
  • infringement,
  • breach,
  • wickedness,
  • trespass,
  • HIT,
  • criminality,
  • scandal,
  • depravity,
  • abomination,
  • transgression,
  • delictum,
  • tort,
  • delicts,
  • Torts,
  • malefactions,
  • iniquity,
  • dereliction,
  • enormity.
  •illegality (noun)
  • offense.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • crime.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abhorrence,
  • abstract,
  • amiss,
  • anarchy,
  • antic,
  • appal,
  • appall,
  • assault,
  • atrociousness,
  • awry,
  • bankrupt,
  • barbarity,
  • barbarousness,
  • better,
  • blame,
  • blunder,
  • boob,
  • break away,
  • break down,
  • break of serve,
  • break off,
  • break out,
  • breakage,
  • breaking,
  • breakout,
  • bring out,
  • bump,
  • burst,
  • business,
  • bust,
  • cabbage,
  • canary,
  • capriole,
  • caseful,
  • casing,
  • causa,
  • cause,
  • cave in,
  • character,
  • check,
  • chore,
  • civil wrong,
  • collapse,
  • come apart,
  • conk out,
  • corruptness,
  • creep,
  • criminalism,
  • culprit,
  • damage,
  • damp,
  • dampen,
  • dark,
  • darkness,
  • deadly sin,
  • defect,
  • degeneracy,
  • demerit,
  • demote,
  • desecrate,
  • detestation,
  • develop,
  • devilment,
  • devilry,
  • die,
  • dirt,
  • disclose,
  • discontinue,
  • discourtesy,
  • discover,
  • dishonor,
  • dishonour,
  • display case,
  • disruption,
  • dissonance,
  • divulge,
  • eccentric,
  • encase,
  • encroachment,
  • error,
  • erupt,
  • event,
  • evilness,
  • example,
  • execration,
  • expose,
  • face,
  • fail,
  • fall apart,
  • fall in,
  • falling out,
  • farm out,
  • faulty,
  • filch,
  • fink,
  • flaw,
  • font,
  • founder,
  • fount,
  • fracture,
  • frailty,
  • fraudulent scheme,
  • frolic,
  • furtive,
  • gambol,
  • gaolbreak,
  • gap,
  • geological fault,
  • get around,
  • get out,
  • give,
  • give away,
  • give out,
  • give way,
  • go,
  • go against,
  • go bad,
  • good luck,
  • goof,
  • grammatical case,
  • guinea pig,
  • happy chance,
  • haywire,
  • heinousness,
  • hook,
  • ill-timed,
  • illegitimate enterprise,
  • improper,
  • incorrect,
  • incorrectly,
  • indignation,
  • infract,
  • inhumanity,
  • injustice,
  • instance,
  • intermission,
  • intermit,
  • interrupt,
  • interruption,
  • intrude,
  • intrusion,
  • irreverence,
  • jailbreak,
  • joke,
  • jollify,
  • juvenile delinquency,
  • kick downstairs,
  • law-breaking,
  • lawsuit,
  • legal injury,
  • let on,
  • let out,
  • lift,
  • line,
  • line of work,
  • loathing,
  • loathsomeness,
  • lousiness,
  • make happy,
  • make merry,
  • malefic,
  • malevolent,
  • malicious gossip,
  • malign,
  • misbehave,
  • misbehavior,
  • misbehaviour,
  • mischief,
  • mischief-making,
  • mischievousness,
  • misdemean,
  • mishandle,
  • mismanage,
  • mistake,
  • mouse,
  • nefariousness,
  • nobble,
  • noise,
  • occupation,
  • odium,
  • offence,
  • offend,
  • offensive,
  • offensive activity,
  • open frame,
  • outlawry,
  • outrageousness,
  • overstep,
  • part,
  • pause,
  • perpetrator,
  • pilfer,
  • pillow slip,
  • pillowcase,
  • pinch,
  • play,
  • prank,
  • prison-breaking,
  • prisonbreak,
  • problem,
  • profane,
  • prowler,
  • purloin,
  • pussyfoot,
  • putrefaction,
  • putrescence,
  • putridness,
  • racquet,
  • rascality,
  • ravish,
  • ravishment,
  • recess,
  • recrudesce,
  • relegate,
  • repulsiveness,
  • respite,
  • reveal,
  • revel,
  • rift,
  • roguery,
  • roguishness,
  • romp,
  • rottenness,
  • ruin,
  • rupture,
  • scandalisation,
  • scandalise,
  • scandalization,
  • scandalize,
  • separate,
  • severance,
  • shabbiness,
  • sheath,
  • shell,
  • shenanigan,
  • shift,
  • shock,
  • showcase,
  • sine,
  • sinfulness,
  • sinning,
  • sliminess,
  • slip,
  • smash,
  • snap off,
  • snarf,
  • sneaker,
  • sneaky,
  • snitch,
  • snitcher,
  • soften,
  • speculate,
  • split,
  • split up,
  • stalker,
  • stealthy,
  • stool pigeon,
  • stoolie,
  • stoolpigeon,
  • stop,
  • subcontract,
  • subject,
  • subversion,
  • suit,
  • surreptitious,
  • suspension,
  • swipe,
  • take advantage,
  • task,
  • transgress,
  • trick,
  • turpitude,
  • type,
  • typeface,
  • ugliness,
  • umbrage,
  • uncover,
  • unfairness,
  • unseasonable,
  • untimely,
  • unwrap,
  • usurpation,
  • vicious,
  • vileness,
  • villainousness,
  • violate,
  • wassail,
  • weaken,
  • wear,
  • wear out,
  • whoop it up,
  • willful neglect,
  • wrongful conduct,
  • wrongfulness,
  • wrongly,
  • break dance,
  • actus reus,
  • time out,
  • criminalness,
  • break up,
  • break in,
  • crack,
  • rape,
  • compositor's case,
  • typesetter's case,
  • drop the ball,
  • criminal offence,
  • criminal offense,
  • put-on,
  • crime scene,
  • break-dance.

Paraphrases for Delict:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misdemeanour, misdemeanor.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    malpractice, wrongdoing, tort, offence, delicti, misconduct, delinquency.

Antonyms for Delict:

• n.

  • crime
    joy, behavior, delight, virtue, good deed, goodness, benefit, blessing, kindness, obedience, good, right, strength.
  • illegality
    purity, happiness, honor, morality.

Delict Sentence Examples:

• 1 Actions which will lie against a man under either the civil or the praetorian law will not always lie against his heir, the rule being absolute that for delict - for instance, theft, robbery, outrage, or unlawful damage - no penal action can be brought against the heir.