guilty
/ˈɡɪl.ti/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "He was guilty of cheating at cards."
- "I still feel guilty about having forgotten his bday."
- "The guilty man was led away."
- "Do you have a guilty conscience?"
- "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing."
- "The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone."
Etymology
From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
guiltier (comparative)
more guilty (comparative)
guiltiest (superlative)
most guilty (superlative)
guilties (plural)