Guilt

Quick meaning: Guilt is a noun meaning Responsibility for wrongdoing.

Meaning

Responsibility for wrongdoing.

More Meanings

1. (law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
2. Regret for having done wrong.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit offenses; act criminally.
4. (transitive, informal) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.
5. Obsolete form of gilt (“gilded”)

Example Sentences

He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.

Shame based parents would have guilted him for expressing anger.

We don't have to be manipulated, guilted, coerced, or forced into anything.

But I won't be threatened or bribed or guilted into giving up something that's important to me.

Word Forms

• guilts
• guilting
• guilted

Synonyms for guilt

Depending on context, synonyms include blameworthiness, culpability, guiltiness, noninnocence, uninnocence, remorse.

Antonyms for guilt

Common opposites include innocence, blamelessness, cleanness, inculpability, innocency, guiltlessness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include guiltiness, guilt trip, compunction, culpability, guilty, condemnation.

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