criminal

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
adjective bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
adjective guilty of crime or serious offense

From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).

I’ll do the criminal part. — His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
"He's a criminal," I cried. — The Big Four, Agatha Christie
He must be some great criminal! — Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Unknown

felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor

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