culprit vs offender
offender vs culpritculprit and offender both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| culprit | Yes | No | No | No |
| offender | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
offender is a hypernym of
culprit; that is, offender is a
word with a broader meaning than culprit:
- culprit: someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
- offender: a person who transgresses moral or civil law
Other hypernyms of culprit include
wrongdoer.
| culprit (noun) | offender (noun) |
|---|---|
| someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | a person who transgresses moral or civil law |
Words related to "culprit"
Words related to "offender"
- abuser
- aggressor
- assailant
- assaulter
- attacker
- backslider
- bad person
- barrater
- barrator
- beguiler
- cheat
- cheater
- convict
- culprit
- deceiver
- defector
- delinquent
- depreciation
- derogation
- deserter
- disparagement
- evildoer
- fancy man
- ganef
- ganof
- gonif
- goniff
- juvenile delinquent
- malfeasant
- maltreater
- miscreant
- molester
- no-show
- nonattender
- offend
- pandar
- pander
- panderer
- perpetrator
- pettifogger
- pimp
- ponce
- principal
- procurer
- recidivist
- reprobate
- reversionist
- shark
- shyster
- sinner
- slicker
- supplanter
- transgressor
- trickster
- truant
- usurper
- war criminal
- wrongdoer
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