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Synonyms for sin
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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. Sinnoun

    Synonyms:
    Nanna

  2. Sinnoun

    The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology.

    Synonyms:
    Nanna

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sin

    Sin is any lack of holiness, any defect of moral purity and truth, whether in heart or life, whether of commission or omission. "All unrighteousness is sin," 1 John v, 17. Transgression, as its etymology indicates, is the stepping over a specific enactment, whether of God or man, ordinarily by overt act, but in the broadest sense, in volition or desire. Sin may be either act or state; transgression is always an act, mental or physical. Crime is often used for a flagrant violation of right, but in the technical sense denotes specific violation of human law. Guilt is desert of and exposure to punishment because of sin. Depravity denotes not any action, but a perverted moral condition from which any act of sin may proceed. Sin in the generic sense, as denoting a state of heart, is synonymous with depravity; in the specific sense, as in the expression a sin, the term may be synonymous with transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, etc., or may denote some moral activity that could not be characterized by terms so positive. Immorality denotes outward violation of the moral law. Sin is thus the broadest word, and immorality next in scope; all crimes, properly so called, and all immoralities, are sins; but there may be sin, as ingratitude, which is neither crime, transgression, nor immorality; and there may be immorality which is not crime, as falsehood. Compare CRIMINAL.

    Compare synonyms for VIRTUE.

    Synonyms:
    crime, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, fault, guilt, ill-doing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, transgression, ungodliness, unrighteousness, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong, wrong-doing

    Antonyms:
    blamelessness, excellence, godliness, goodness, holiness, innocence, integrity, morality, purity, rectitude, right, righteousness, sinlessness, uprightness, virtue

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. sin

    Synonyms:
    transgression, iniquity, unrighteousness, ungodliness, wickedness, evil, impurity, crime, wrongdoing, ungodliness

    Antonyms:
    sinlessness, obedience, holiness, righteousness, purity, godliness, goodness

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sin, sinfulness, wickednessnoun

    estrangement from god

    Synonyms:
    sinfulness, ugliness, iniquity, hell, immorality, dark, sine, wickedness, evil, darkness, sliminess, repulsiveness, sinning, lousiness, nefariousness, loathsomeness, vileness

  2. sin, sinningnoun

    an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

    Synonyms:
    wickedness, sinfulness, sine, sinning, hell

  3. sine, sinnoun

    ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

    Synonyms:
    wickedness, hell, sine, sinning, sinfulness

  4. Sinnoun

    (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

    Synonyms:
    wickedness, sinfulness, sine, sinning, hell

  5. sinnoun

    the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

    Synonyms:
    wickedness, sinfulness, sine, sinning, hell

  6. sin, hellverb

    violent and excited activity

    "they began to fight like sin"

    Synonyms:
    hellhole, sinfulness, netherworld, blaze, infernal region, nether region, sine, wickedness, pit, underworld, the pits, perdition, sinning, inferno, hell, snake pit, hell on earth

  7. sin, transgress, trespassverb

    commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

    Synonyms:
    violate, breach, overstep, intrude, infract, goof, boob, offend, trespass, drop the ball, break, blunder, go against, transgress, take advantage

  8. drop the ball, sin, blunder, boob, goofverb

    commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

    "I blundered during the job interview"

    Synonyms:
    blurt, blurt out, goof, boob, blunder out, ejaculate, trespass, drop the ball, fumble, blunder, transgress

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sinnoun

    Synonyms:
    offence (against the divine law), iniquity, unrighteousness, wickedness, wrong, CRIME, transgression, delinquency

  2. sinverb

    Synonyms:
    trespass, do wrong

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sinnoun

    Synonyms:
    iniquity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency, peccadillo, offense, peccancy, unrighteousness

    Associated words:
    ponerology, hamartiology, peccable, peccability, peccant, peccavi, impeccable, impeccability

  2. sinverb

    Synonyms:
    do wrong, trespass, transgress

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Sin":

    Actavius Mills, 橋本慎

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. SIN

    Synonyms:
    See Squamous intraepithelial neoplasia

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How to use sin in a sentence?

  1. Christen Kuikoua:

    Grace doesn't give a sinner the right to accumulate more sin just because it is freely given. Instead, it calls us to repentance and transformation, urging us to live in a way that honors the gift we have received.

  2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches:

    It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

  3. Steven Rattner:

    The original sin was the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, passed in March. The bill – almost completely unfunded – sought to counter the effects of the COVID pandemic by focusing on demand-side stimulus rather than on investment, that has contributed materially to today’s inflation levels.

  4. Marcus Aelius Aurelius:

    Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

  5. Thomas Fuller:

    He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.


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