crime

crime

noun

Definition of CRIME

1

activities that are in violation of the laws of the state <a promise by the president to step up the war against crime>

Synonyms criminality, lawbreaking, lawlessness

Related Words outlawry; gangsterism, hooliganism, racketeering; malfeasance, misconduct; wrongdoing; evil, immorality, sin, wickedness; corruption, depravity; malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, offense (or offence), transgression, trespass

2

a regrettable or blameworthy act <it's a crime to waste food, so give the rest of the pizza to me>

Synonyms disgrace, pity, shame, sin

Related Words outrage, scandal

3

a breaking of a moral or legal code <anyone who commits a crime should expect to be punished for it>

Synonyms breach, crime, debt, error, lawbreaking, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, sin, transgression, trespass, violation, wrongdoing

Related Words bias crime, hate crime; felony, misconduct, misdemeanor, misfeasance; fault, foible, peccadillo; break, infringement; immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, sinfulness, vice, wickedness; corruption, debauchery, depravity, licentiousness; abuse, criminality, illegality, lawlessness, unlawfulness; descent, downfall, fall

Near Antonyms blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, innocence, irreproachability; goodness, morality, righteousness, virtue, virtuousness

Antonyms noncrime