offender vs delinquent

delinquent vs offender

offender and delinquent both are nouns.

offender is not an adjective while delinquent is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
offender	Yes	No	No	No
delinquent	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, delinquent is a hyponym of offender; that is, delinquent is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than offender:

offender: a person who transgresses moral or civil law
delinquent: a young offender

Other hyponyms of offender include abuser, maltreater, aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker, barrater, barrator, convict, beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster, juvenile delinquent, defector, deserter, ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff, transgressor, malfeasant, molester, no-show, nonattender, truant, culprit, perpetrator, fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer, principal, backslider, recidivist, reversionist, miscreant, reprobate, shark, pettifogger, shyster, evildoer, sinner, supplanter, usurper, war criminal.

offender (noun)	delinquent (noun)
a person who transgresses moral or civil law	a young offender

offender (adjective)	delinquent (adjective)
	past due; not paid at the scheduled time
	guilty of a misdeed
	failing in what duty requires

Difference between offender and delinquent

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