Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Noun

The word "criminal" can be used as adjective, adjective and noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

jail prison

Capable Of

appeal to higher court arm bomb attempt to rob bank case convenience store case joint commit crime with gun deal drugs except time in jail expect punishment expect to go to jail face accuser face accusers face charges fear police fear retribution leave scene of crime lie to court make people feel unsafe name accomplices own gun pick lock plan crime receive jail sentence retain team of lawyers rob bank scape from jail scape from prison scape policeman try to appear innocent visit jail wrong another person

Derived Terms

District of Criminals November criminal age of criminal responsibility anticriminal arch-criminal archcriminal career criminal certificate of no criminal conviction climate criminal criminal against humanity criminal code criminal conversation criminal law criminal lawyer criminal negligence criminal offence criminal offense criminal procedure criminal prosecution criminal prosecutor criminal psychologist criminal psychology criminal record criminal science criminal scientist criminal tool criminal tribe criminal-like criminaldom criminalese criminaless criminalisation criminalise criminalish criminalism criminalist criminalistic criminalistics criminality criminalization criminalize criminally criminalness criminaloid criminigger criminogenic criminology crimmigrant crimmigration cybercriminal e-criminal medicocriminal noncriminal petty criminal pseudocriminal quasicriminal semicriminal subcriminal supercriminal thought criminal uncriminal war criminal

Derived From

crime

Has Property

likely to have weapon

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

person principal sinner transgressor wrongdoer

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

arsonist bank robber blackmailer burglar criminal leader crimo damber gallows bird gangbanger gangster kidnapper killer mobster pickpocket prostitute's client racketeer robber sex offender terrorist thief war criminal

Type Of (IsA)

criminals or spy person person who breaks law person who commits crime person who commits crimes principal who breaks law who commits crime who commits crimes worker

Not Desires

get caught by police

Receives Action

found in courthouse given sentence sentenced to jail

Related Terms

absconder con convict fugitive jerk prisoner troublemaker villain

Related Terms

abhorrent crime criminality forbidden guilty incriminate law penal undesirable

Similar Terms

guilty guilty illegal wrong

Synonym Network

crimeful delictuous felonious illegal reprehensible

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.