Peccant

Definition: Peccant

Peccant

Adjective

1. Liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "peccant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Peccant

Disease

Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.

Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.

Imperfection

Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.

Inexpedience

Bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.

Crosswords: Peccant

Latin (do wrong, sin).

Albanian

mëkatar (evil, evil doer, Peccable, sinful, sinner, transgressor, unrighteous, wrongdoer), i gabuar (Amiss, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, ill-judged, improper, incorrect, mistaken, perverse, untrue, wet, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏آثم (unholy, unrighteous, vicious). (various references)

Bulgarian 

грешен (fallacious, iniquitous, sinful, unhallowed, unrighteous, wicked, wrong), виновен (found guilty, guilty, hangdog, mean), нарушаващ правило, нарушаващ принцип, болестен (morbid), болезнен (afflictive, diseased, morbid, painful, sick, sore, torturous, unsound, wicked), покварен (corrupt, depraved, gamy, godforsaken, graceless, obscene, scrofulous, vicious, wanton). (various references)

French

coupable. (various references)

German

sündig (errant, sinful, sinfully, unregenerate, unrighteous). (various references)

Greek 

αμαρτωλόσ (sinful, sinner, trespasser). (various references)

Hebrew 

פושע (apostate, criminal, felon, gangster), חוטא (reprobate, sinful, sinner, wrongdoer). (various references)

Hungarian

vétkes (culpable, delinquent, guilty, malicious, offender, sinful, transgressor, trespasser), kóros (diseased, morbid, morbidity, pathological, pernicious), hibás (bad, culpable, defective, deficient, erroneous, faulty, flawy, impolitic, inaccurate, incorrect, malfunctioning, wrong), bűnös (culpable, culprit, malicious, miscreant, nefarious, rep, sinful, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, ungodly). (various references)

Italian

peccaminoso (sinful, wicked). (various references)

Manx

peccoil (erring, sinful), kyndagh (convict, criminal, culpable, culprit, guilty, malefactor, trespasser). (various references)

Pig Latin

eccantpay.(various references)

Portuguese

pecante, em pecado. (various references)

Russian 

греховный (peccable, sinful), вызывающий болезнь, болезненный (achy, afflictive, ailing, cachectic, morbid, painful, pimping, sickly, squeamish, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pogrešan (erroneous, fallacious, faulty, wrong), grešan (iniquitous, peccable, sinful, ungodly, unrighteous). (various references)

Spanish

pecador (offender, sinful, sinner), culpable (blamable, blameable, blameworthy, causer, culpable, culprit, enthralling, guilty, offender). (various references)

Swedish

syndig (sinful, unrighteous, wicked). (various references)

Turkish

kusurlu (culpable, defective, faulty, imperfect, inaccurate, incommensurate, incomplete, malformed, tainted), kabahatli (at fault, blameworthy, culpable, guilty, offender, to blame). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвороботворний (nosogenic, pathogenetic, pathogenic), грішний (errant, sinful, vile, wicked), помилковий (bad, blundering, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, faulty, inaccurate, lying, mistaken, phony, truthless, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có lỗi lầm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "peccant": peccantly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: accent, accept.

-2 letters: enact, epact, paten, pecan.

-3 letters: acne, ante, cane, cant, cape, cate, ceca, cent, etna, nape, neap, neat, pace, pact, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pent, tace, tape, tepa.

-4 letters: ace, act, ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, can, cap, cat, cep, eat, eta, nae, nap, net, pac, pan, pat, pea, pec, pen.

+2 letters: acceptant, accepting, peccantly.

+3 letters: acceptance, catchpenny, complacent, conceptual, expectance, expectancy, pancreatic, precontact, unaccepted.

+4 letters: acceptances, acceptation, acceptingly, accipitrine, acupuncture, capacitance, captaincies, cocaptained, compactness, conceptacle, expectances, narcoleptic, pococurante, reaccepting.

+5 letters: acceptations, accipitrines, acupunctures, capacitances, complacently, conceptacles, conceptional, conceptually, conduplicate, encephalitic, expectancies, incapacitate, incapacities, narcoleptics, pantechnicon, pectinaceous, postaccident, precipitance, precipitancy, reoccupation, unacceptable, unacceptably, uncomplacent.