Guilt

What do we mean by guilt?

The fact of being responsible for the commission of an offense; moral culpability. synonym: blame. noun

The fact of having been found to have violated a criminal law; legal culpability. noun

Responsibility for a mistake or error. noun

Remorseful awareness of having done something wrong. noun

Self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing. noun

To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty. transitive verb

To commit offenses; act criminally.

An obsolete spelling of gilt.

A fault; an offense; a guilty action; a crime. noun

That state of a moral agent which results from his commission of a crime or an offense wilfully or by consent; culpability arising from conscious violation of moral or penal law, either by positive act or by neglect of known duty; criminality; wickedness. noun

Technical or constructive criminality; exposure to forfeiture or other penalty. noun

The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right. noun

Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture. noun

A feeling of regret or remorse for having committed some improper act; a recognition of one's own responsibility for doing something wrong. noun

To commit offenses; act criminally. verb

To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour. verb

Responsibility for wrongdoing. noun

Awareness of having done wrong. noun

Responsibility for wrongdoing.

The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

The regret of having done wrong.

Words that are spelled similarly to guilt:
guilt, built, guild, quilt, gilt, guile, guil, gwilt, gult, guill, uilt, guist, aguilt, guilp.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word guilt:
innocence, shame, remorse, forgiveness, sin, defendant, sins, regret, redemption, confessed, grief, anxiety, confession, plea, guilty, punishment, innocent, doubt, reasonable, feelings, anger, conviction, verdict, blame, suicide, vol, emotions, sentence, commit, accused, fear, murder, holocaust, proven, jury, prosecution, trial, testimony, feeling, crimes, convicted, affair, crime, actions, evidence, rape, emotional, truth, responsibility, feel, criminal, moral, proof, victim, returns, killing, committed, tries, felt, trip, asks, tells, herself, death, believes, penalty.

Words that rhyme with guilt:
tilt, quilt, gilt, built, milt, silt, stilt, wilt, lilt, hilt, jilt, kilt, spilt, rebuilt, crazy quilt, unbuilt, overbuilt, to the hilt, continental quilt, patchwork quilt, banded stilt, peterbilt, australian stilt, basket hilt, tobacco wilt, wildt, granville wilt, schilt, schildt, bildt, microbilt, vanderwilt, welbilt.

Adjectives that are often used to describe guilt:
own, collective, moral, personal, conscious, much, human, more, unconscious, real, sexual, survivor, excessive, individual, actual, less, german, white, intense, terrible, legal, greater, deep, enormous, blood, false, tremendous, criminal, original, existential, tragic, neurotic, considerable, parental, past, overwhelming, secret, extreme, liberal, irrational, deeper, heavy, unresolved, oedipal, universal, awful, equal, war, double, inner, hidden, enough, hereditary, unnecessary, infinite, supposed, inappropriate, probable, profound, apparent, severe, mutual, residual, subjective, sole, alleged, inexpiable, shared, corporate, metaphysical, repressed, deepest, objective, racial, heinous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective guilt:
offering, free, feeling, feelings, consciousness, edged, anxiety, ridden, tripping, proneness, association, offerings, culture, manipulators, shot, prone, factor, complex, squeeze, producing, trial, the, anger, based, expiation, payment, arousing, morality, clause, shame, parents, induction, head.

Consonant match to guilt:
gilt, galt, gault.

Words that sound like guilt:
guilt, gilt, gelt, gult, guild, gild, galt, gault, gilled, golt, gilde, -gilled, kilt, geld, gelled, guld, gulled, gold, get, guilty, cult, gill, gills, gil, celt, gould, gilly, golde, kelt, gils, gillie, gillet, ghillie, goold, guil, galled, gilet, guilts, gilla, guill, gilley, gilts, kult, culte, gitte, guillot, gauld, glt, guillet, giloh, glbt, goolde, jilt, killed, colt, kalt, calt, kolt, gut, gull, gully, gulls, gullet, gle, gol, gul, gulch, gulped, gutt, gushed, gally, gulley, gols, gles, gulty, gelly, gett, galoot, gelo, guls, gulfed, guel, galette, gullah, gulla, gelert, ghyll, guhl, gete, gaelle, gellert, geli, gele, gehl, gelli, gelee, gewalt, ngl, galloot, ggl.