sinful

English

Etymology

From Middle English synful, senful, sunful, from Old English synful (“sinful, guilty, wicked, corrupt”), equivalent to sin +‎ -ful. Compare Dutch zondevol (“sinful”), German sündevoll (“sinful”), Danish syndefuld (“sinful”), Swedish syndfull (“sinful”), Icelandic syndfullur (“sinful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnfəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnfəl

Adjective

sinful (comparative more sinful, superlative most sinful)

1. Having sinned; guilty of sin.
2. Constituting a sin; morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil

   Antonym: sinless

3. (colloquial) decadent (luxuriously self-indulgent)

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

• sinfully
• sinfulness
• unsinful

Translations

constituting sin

• Aromanian: amãrtios
• Bulgarian: грешен (bg) (grešen), греховен (bg) (grehoven)
• Catalan: pecaminós (ca)
• Czech: hříšný (cs)
• Danish: syndig
• Dutch: zondig (nl)
• Esperanto: peka
• Finnish: syntinen (fi)
• French: coupable (fr), peccamineux (fr)
• German: sündig (de), sündhaft (de),frevelhaft (de)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 (frawaurhts)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἁμαρτωλός (hamartōlós), ἀλιτρός (alitrós)

• Hungarian: bűnös (hu)
• Icelandic: syndugur
• Italian: corrotto (it), peccaminoso (it)
• Latin: nefastus, sacrilegus, peccātus
• Maori: whaihara
• Middle English: synful
• Norwegian: syndig
• Old English: synfull
• Plautdietsch: sindhauft
• Portuguese: pecaminoso (pt)
• Romanian: păcătos (ro)
• Russian: гре́шный (ru) (gréšnyj)
• Spanish: pecaminoso
• Swedish: syndig (sv)
• Tocharian B: tränkossu
• Yiddish: זינדיק (zindik)

evil — see evil

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Middle English

Adjective

sinful

1. Alternative form of synful

Noun

sinful

1. Alternative form of synful