Recidivist

Definitions: Recidivist

Recidivist

Noun

1. Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior).

2. Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior.

Date "recidivist" was first used: 1880. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	One who tends to relapse. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Recidivist

Synonyms: backslider (n), habitual criminal (n), repeater (n), reversionist (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Tergiversation	Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Recidivist

Non-English Usage: "Recidivist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (recidivist, repeater), Danish (recidivist), Romanian (backslider, recidivist, repeater).

"Recidivist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Recidivist" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "recidivist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		recidivist (repeater), përsëritës (backslider, frequentative, iterative, recapitulatory, reiterative). (various references)

Arabic		‏الانتكاسي النزاع للعودة للإجرام. (various references)

Bulgarian		рецидивист (gaol-bird, jailbird, repeater). (various references)

Danish		recidivist. (various references)

Dutch		recidief (relapse). (various references)

Finnish		rikoksenuusija. (various references)

French		récidiviste (repeater), récidivant. (various references)

German		Patient mit Rezidiv. (various references)

Greek		εγκληματίασ (criminal, delinquent, gangster, outlaw). (various references)

Hebrew		חוזר לסורו. (various references)

Hungarian		visszaeső bűnös (backslider, repeater). (various references)

Italian		recidivo (recidivistic, recidivous), paziente che rientra in ospedale (person who lapses back into old habits). (various references)

Manx		cooyl-skyrraghtagh (backslider, drop off), aahuittymagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ecidivistray

Portuguese		recidivista. (various references)

Romanian		recidivist (backslider, repeater). (various references)

Russian		рецидивист (gaolbird, jailbird, old offender, recidivism). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okoreli zločinac. (various references)

Spanish		reincidente (backslider, recidivistic, recidivous, relapsing, repeater, second offender). (various references)

Swedish		återfallsförbrytande. (various references)

Turkish		tekrar suç işleyen sabıkalı (repeater), sabıkalı (criminal, picaroon, previously convicted, recidivous, repeater). (various references)

Ukranian		рецедивіст. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	recidivus. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	recidivare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "recidivist": recidivistic, recidivists. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Recidivist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recedivist, recidivant, redivivus, ricidivist. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "recidivist" (pronounced rusi"divi'st)
5	-i v i' s t	collectivist, nativist.
3	-i' s t	absurdist, astrophysicist, backlist, baptist, bassist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, chartist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, dualist, egotist, essayist, evangelist, expansionist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, publicist, purist, realist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, revivalist, royalist, satanist, saxophonist, sensationalist, sexist, soloist, statist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-r-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: viricides.
	-2 letters: verdicts, veristic, viricide.
	-3 letters: credits, deistic, diciest, dictier, directs, dirties, ditsier, diverts, eristic, revisit, scrived, strived, tidiers, verdict, veridic, visited, visiter, vitrics.
	-4 letters: cervid, ciders, citers, citied, cities, civets, civies, credit, dicers, dicier, direct, direst, divers, divert, divest, driest, drives, edicts, evicts, iciest, irides, iridic, irised, iritic, iritis, rivets, scried, scrive, steric, stiver, stride, strive, teiids, tidier, tidies, triced, trices, verist, viscid, vitric.
	-5 letters: cedis, cesti, cider, cires, cited, citer, cites, civet, civie, crest, cried, cries, deist, dicer, dices, diets, dirts, disci, dites, diver, dives, drest, dries, drive, edict, edits, evict, icier, irids, ivied, ivies, recti, resid, riced, rices, rides, rites, rived, rives, rivet, sired, sited, siver, stied, teiid, tides, tiers, tired, tires, trice, tried, tries, verst, verts, viced, vices, viers, vires, virid, vised, visit.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-r-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: recidivists.
	+2 letters: recidivistic.
	+3 letters: directivities.
	+4 letters: discriminative, diverticulitis, diverticulosis, overidealistic, productivities, veridicalities.
	+5 letters: destructivities, diversification, radioactivities, underactivities.
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