Associations to the word «Guilt»
Noun
- Innocence
- Remorse
- Pang
- Shame
- Presumption
- Defendant
- Atonement
- Confession
- Blame
- Repentance
- Forgiveness
- Sin
- Juror
- Grief
- Punishment
- Feeling
- Reparation
- Jury
- Empathy
- Sentencing
- Retribution
- Conscience
- Admission
- Sadness
- Proof
- Prosecution
- Accomplice
- Stab
- Burden
- Penance
- Wickedness
- Redemption
- Verdict
- Culprit
- Condemnation
- Ordeal
- Accused
- Accusation
- Sinner
- Embarrassment
- Denial
- Prosecutor
- Misery
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Insomnia
- Loneliness
- Innocent
- Anguish
- Betrayal
- Resentment
- Conviction
- Freud
- Plea
- Regret
- Murderer
- Perpetrator
- Esteem
- Sorrow
- Survivor
- Suspect
- Crime
- Emotion
- Reproach
- Evidence
- Restitution
- Suffering
Adjective
Wiktionary
GUILT, noun. Responsibility for wrongdoing.
GUILT, noun. Awareness of having done wrong.
GUILT, noun. The fact of having done wrong.
GUILT, noun. (legal) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
GUILT, verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To commit offenses; act criminally.
GUILT, verb. (transitive) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.
GUILT TRIP, noun. (idiomatic) A feeling of shame or embarrassment, especially if self-indulgent, unwarranted, exaggerated or felt over a significant period of time.
GUILT TRIP, noun. (idiomatic) Remarks intended to produce such a feeling.
GUILT TRIPS, noun. Plural of guilt trip
Dictionary definition
GUILT, noun. The state of having committed an offense.
GUILT, noun. Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.