Meaning

Responsibility for wrongdoing..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Appropriate guilt is experienced when we actually do something objectively wrong—for example, exploit another, betray a trust, and so on. […] Inappropriate guilt occurs from believing a lie and is resolved by an application of the truth.

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.

Two silver monteths, two large fflaggons, two large tankards, two silver salvers, a voyder and a knyfe, two silver salts, two guilt bolls of the like size, one other boll, three silver bolls, in all 24 pieces guilt and unguilt.

Word Forms

• guilts
• guilting
• guilted

Synonyms for guilt

Antonyms for guilt

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When Should You Use Guilt?

Use guilt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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