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The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
Andy Behrman

Meaning of "guilt" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GUILT

Old English gylt, of obscure origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GUILT

guilt  [ɡɪlt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GUILT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Guilt is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GUILT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Guilt

Guilt may refer to: ▪ Guilt, an emotion that occurs when a person feels that they have violated a moral standard. ▪ Culpability, a legal term ▪ Guilt, a legal term ▪ GUILT, or Gangliated Utrophin Immuno-Latency Toxin, antagonistic parasites in the Trauma Center series...

Definition of guilt in the English dictionary

The first definition of guilt in the dictionary is the fact or state of having done wrong or committed an offence. Other definition of guilt is responsibility for a criminal or moral offence deserving punishment or a penalty. Guilt is also remorse or self-reproach caused by feeling that one is responsible for a wrong or offence.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GUILT


built
bɪlt
gilt
ɡɪlt
hilt
hɪlt
home-built
ˌhəʊmˈbɪlt
kilt
kɪlt
Kriemhild
ˈkriːmhɪlt
lilt
lɪlt
milt
mɪlt
overbuilt
ˌəʊvəˈbɪlt
quilt
kwɪlt
rebuilt
ˌriːˈbɪlt
scratchbuilt
ˈskrætʃˌbɪlt
silt
sɪlt
spilt
spɪlt
spoilt
spɔɪlt
stilt
stɪlt
tilt
tɪlt
unspoilt
ʌnˈspɔɪlt
Vanderbilt
ˈvændəbɪlt
wilt
wɪlt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GUILT

guiler
Guilin
Guillaume de Lorris
Guillem
guillemet
guillemot
guilloche
guillotine
guillotiner
guilt complex
guiltier
guiltiest
guiltily
guiltiness
guiltless
guiltlessly
guiltlessness
guilty
guilty conscience
guilty party

WORDS THAT END LIKE GUILT

blood guilt
brick-built
clincher-built
clinker-built
coach-built
continental quilt
crazy quilt
custom-built
heavily built
in-built
jerry-built
patch quilt
patchwork quilt
powerfully built
purpose-built
self-built
square-built
system built
upbuilt
well-built

Synonyms and antonyms of guilt in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GUILT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «guilt» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of guilt

Translation of «guilt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GUILT

Find out the translation of guilt to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of guilt from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «guilt» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

犯罪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

culpa
570 millions of speakers

English

guilt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपराध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شُعور الذَنْب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

culpa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দোষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

culpabilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersalah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schuld
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

有罪
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유죄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kasalahan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दोषी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

suç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colpa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

провина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vină
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενοχή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skuld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skuld
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skyld
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of guilt

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GUILT»

The term «guilt» is very widely used and occupies the 15.407 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GUILT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «guilt» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «guilt» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about guilt

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10 QUOTES WITH «GUILT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word guilt.
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Peter Ackroyd
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.
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Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Paddy Ashdown
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
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Andy Behrman
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
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Naomi Benaron
I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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William Throsby Bridges
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
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Alex Campbell
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
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Patrick Chappatte
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
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Andy Dick
Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUILT»

Discover the use of guilt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to guilt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Guilt: An Alex Delaware Novel
Entering this sheltered world, Alex little imagines the macabre layer just below the surface—a decadent quagmire of unholy rituals and grisly sacrifice. Don’t miss the excerpt of Jonathan Kellerman’s Killer in the back of the book!
Jonathan Kellerman, 2013
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Shame and Guilt: The Masters of Disguise
Argues that shame and guilt are the main causes of dysfunctional families, describes the characteristics of adults shamed in childhood, and offers advice on developing feelings of self-worth
Jane Middelton-Moz, 1990
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Mommy Guilt: Learn to Worry Less, Focus on What Matters ...
This eye-opening book presents the results of an original, never-before-published nationwide survey of over 1,300 parents.
Julie Bort, Aviva Pflock, Devra Renner, 2005
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Guilt: The Bite of Conscience
This is the first study of guilt from a wide variety of perspectives: psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, six major religions, four key moral philosophers, and the law.
Herant Katchadourian, 2011
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Guilt
Influential San Francisco attorney Mark Dooher - affluent, powerful, totally in control - is accustomed to getting what he wants.
John Lescroart, 2012
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Shame and Guilt
This volume reports on the growing body of knowledge on shame and guilt, integrating findings from the authors' original research program with other data emerging from social, clinical, personality, and developmental psychology.
June Price Tangney, Ronda L. Dearing, 2003
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Escaping Toxic Guilt: Five Proven Steps to Free Yourself ...
The five easy-to-follow steps in Escaping Toxic Guilt can liberate you from these self-defeating patterns and put you on the path to living life fully, joyfully, and on your own terms.
Susan Carrell, 2007
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Guilt: Revenge, Remorse and Responsibility After Freud
Considering the work of Freud and major pioneers of psychoanalysis, and focusing on the debate Klein and Winnicott, the author attempts to remove blame and the essence of guilt from religion, morality and law.
Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca, 2013
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Guilt by Association
A provocative tale that mirrors today's headlines, this page-turning first novel is a gripping, intelligent and totally satisfying account of one woman's brave struggle to triumph over the pain of a vicious rape, her battle to rebuild her ...
Susan R. Sloan, 2009
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Guilt by Association
With her tremendous expertise in the nuances of L.A. courts and crime, and with a vibrant ensemble cast of characters, Marcia Clark combines intimate detail, riotous humor, and visceral action in a debut thriller that marks the launch of a ...
Marcia Clark, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUILT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term guilt is used in the context of the following news items.
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Having a Nanny - Stop Shaming Mothers and Ditch Working Mom Guilt
Ladies, we're (well you're) in a weird place. Since the boom of the 80s and birth of the early 90s women have been told they must "have it all". «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Gen M Suffers From Mobile Guilt
We know mobile usage is changing our lives — but did you know it's leading to a significant amount of guilt? I interviewed Ojas Rege, vice ... «Chief Learning Officer, Jul 15»
3
Letters: Don't feel guilt about the poor, but do something instead
Cal Thomas, as usual, misses the whole point. Pope Francis' encyclical is a bulletin to the faithful on a moral question. He is less concerned ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»
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Sydney nutritionist Raj Barker shares guilt-free alternatives for winter …
With the weather outside bitterly cold, curling up in front of the fire with a steaming mug of hot chocolate or a cosy bowl of pasta can seem like ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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HARRIET ARKELL SAVVY SHOPPER on guilt-free snacks and …
In typical style they've even given it a name — 'guilt-free snacking', ... arrays of delicious nibbles for us to enjoy without the usual attendant guilt. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Car crash caller's guilt over Scots couple death
A MAN who called police to report a car crash which the force failed to investigate for three days has told of his guilt for not following it up, after ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
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M9 crash deaths: man who called police speaks of his feelings of guilt
... police failed to follow up, leaving the dead and dying victims in their vehicle for more than three days, has spoken of his feelings of guilt. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Restaurant Menus Without the Calorie Count Guilt. For Now..
Pizza lovers are getting a reprieve from the FDA. The agency has delayed rules requiring chain restaurants to display the calorie count on their ... «News Ledge, Jul 15»
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LSD anniversary gift kills woman; Kennewick man admits guilt
RICHLAND — A Kennewick man has admitted putting LSD strips inside a greeting card and mailing it to a college friend in West Virginia. «Yakima Herald-Republic, Jul 15»
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Waste company, officials admit guilt in 2011 spill

The company pleaded guilty Friday to two misdemeanor charges of violating the federal Clean Water Act on Dec. 19 and again on Jan. «Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Jul 15»


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