Meaning of DELINQUENT
| Pronunciation: | | di'lingkwunt
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- [n] a young offender
- [adj] past due; not paid at the scheduled time; "an overdue installment"; "a delinquent account"
- [adj] persistently bad; "school for delinquent boys"
- [adj] failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"
- [adj] guilty of a minor misdeed; "delinquent minors"
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| | Synonyms: | | derelict, due, guilty, incorrigible, juvenile delinquent, neglectful, negligent, overdue, owed, remiss |
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| | See Also: | | offender, wrongdoer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\De*lin"quent\a. [L. delinquens, -entis, p. pr. of
delinquere to fail, be wanting in one's duty, do wrong; de- +
linquere to leave. See {Loan}, n.]
Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
\De*lin"quent\, n.
One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or
transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.
A delinquent ought to be cited in the place or
jurisdiction where the delinquency was committed.
--Ayliffe.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, bad person, behindhand, careless, criminal, crook, culprit, deceiver, defaulter, defaulting, derelict, deviant, disgraceful, disregardful, evil, evil man, evil person, evildoer, failing, felon, gangster, hardly the thing, hooligan, ignominious, illegal, improper, in arrear, in arrears, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, late, lawbreaker, lax, levanter, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, miscreant, misdemeanant, misdemeanist, misfeasor, mobster, neglectful, negligent, nonpayer, nonpaying, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, offender, outlaw, out-of-line, overdue, past due, public enemy, racketeer, regardless, remiss, roughneck, ruffian, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, sinner, slack, tax dodger, tax evader, terrible, thief, transgressor, undue, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unpaid, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, villain, welsher, wicked, worker of ill, wrong, wrongdoer, wrongful |
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