Sin

What do we mean by sin?

Sine abbreviation

One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter shin by having a dot above the left side of the letter. noun

A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate. noun

Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God. noun

A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience. noun

Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong. noun

To violate a religious or moral law. intransitive verb

(live in sin) To cohabit in a sexual relationship without being married. idiom

(as sin) Completely or extremely. idiom

To commit a sin; depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God; violate the divine law by actual transgression or by the neglect or non-observance of its injunctions.

To commit an error or a fault; be at fault; transgress an accepted standard of propriety or taste; offend; followed by against before an object.

To do or commit, contrary to right or rule: with a cognate object.

Also used impersonally, as in the following quotation:

To influence, force, or drive by sinning to some course of procedure: followed by an adverbial phrase noting the direction of the result effected.

Same as since.

An abbreviation of sine, 2.

Any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God. (Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism.) noun

A serious fault; an error; a transgression: as, a sin against good taste. noun

An incarnation or embodiment of sin. noun

A violation of God's will or religious law.

A misdeed.

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

A flaw.

Words that are spelled similarly to sin:
sin.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sin:
cara, cos, sinner, sinful, repentance, eater, sins, atonement, forgiven, righteousness, chew, penance, amor, forgiveness, redemption, salvation, eli, baptism, guilt, mortal, nam, tai, wong, eternal, justification, que, para, punishment, confession, augustine, god, christ, grace, ming, hell, mercy, jesus, evil, doctrine, humanity, tan, divine, adam, sacrifice, bin, eve, devil, heaven, faith, theology, pride, committed, holy, moral, soul, bible, prayer, spiritual, suffering, belief.

Words that rhyme with sin:
in, begin, pin, spin, skin, win, chagrin, akin, within, bin, fin, when, thin, kin, gin, grin, tin, din, twin, underpin, inn, linchpin, chin, vin, shin, been, levin, djinn, lin, puffin, quin, therein, wherein, kingpin, herein, jin, yin, syn, berlin, tailspin, violin, min, adin, finn, bedouin, lynn, gyn, mandolin, quinn, next of kin, qin, ligne, boleyn, minh, brin, linn, buckskin, sheepskin, foreskin, lyn, ervin, ginn, redskin, bryn, schwinn, wynn, has been, gwyn, flynn, rhin, digne, has-been, deerskin, gwynne, allin, solzhenitsyn, erwin, cotter pin, lynne, pigskin, loony bin, dinh, astin, sinn, blinn, gwynn, rolling pin, askin, guin, bobby pin, safety pin, zinn, prynne, emlyn, qian, trash bin, guinn, linne, alpin, glyn.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sin:
original, mortal, great, unpardonable, human, deadly, venial, cardinal, grievous, actual, greater, unforgivable, greatest, grave, only, sexual, personal, heinous, serious, terrible, secret, naram, worst, past, wilful, ultimate, gross, least, awful, hereditary, dreadful, rim, deliberate, habitual, primal, worse, unconfessed, carnal, eternal, horrible, foul, hidden, inbred, unrepented, abominable, collective, damnable, outward, inward, lesser, willful, conscious, unforgiven, presumptuous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sin:
offering, aps, jen, sis, eater, drome, junction, kiang, bearer, offerings, vectors, fil, jists, fils, sus, ping, drohm, city, itiro, drom, death, irib, fin, pee, the, cos, chou, nimz, cosine, national, gog, repeat, deterrent, apps, lohn, erba, bearing, lone, yoo, kai, mong, custom, eating, gui, vector.

Consonant match to sin:
sign, sun, scene, son, soon, san, sane, sine, sen, seen, saine, syn, sain, sown, soigne, sewn, cern, sein, suine, sonne, sowne, sinn, sonn, suen, senn, senne, sohn, cine-.

Words that sound like sin:
sin, sinn, cin, syn, scen, cyn, sinne, sinh, scin, cinn, sun, son, sen, sson, sunn, cen, senn, senne, saen, soon, seen, sing, scene, sign, sane, sim, sown, san, sine, sewn, sain, cine, singh, sawn, sene, soun, syne, sng, sonne, cing, sein, saine, sonn, soin, sym, sogn, cene, cimb, sanne, sohn, simm, cien, sien, sayn, saan, sahn, soan, suen, tsun, scim, sahne, sann, simb, soune, sowne, cym, soane, cyne, cein, symm, ceann, ssan, zin, xin, zinn, some, sum, sung, sem, summe, seng, seme, cem, summ, senge, tseng, ssem, tsm, psm, -some, ceng, semb, cern, asin, ceam, acin, ceme, cerne, cih, ceem.