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Definition: Felonious |
FeloniousAdjective1. Involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "felonious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonym: FeloniousSynonym: criminal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vice | Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Felonious |
| English words defined with "felonious": Asportation ♦ extortion ♦ Felonous ♦ Hamesucken ♦ Infelonious ♦ To break a house. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "felonious": Candles of the Night ♦ HOMICIDE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "felonious": Felonous. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Felonious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Felonious" is used about 8 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
felonious assault | 7 |
felonious | 3 |
action extort felonious legal threatening | 3 |
felonious monk | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "felonious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kriminal (criminal, felon), keqbërës (culprit, hoodlum, lag, malefactor, raider, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Arabic | جنائي (criminal, malicious), إجرامي (criminal, guilty), شرير جدا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | углавен (penal), престъпен (criminal, culpable, fell, flagitious, guilty, maleficent, malfeasant, nefarious, sinful, sinister, tough, wrongful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 犯重罪. (various references) | |
Czech | zloèinný (criminal, nefarious). (various references) | |
Dutch | valstrik (snare, trap), hinderlaag (ambush, snare). (various references) | |
Finnish | väijytys (ambuscade, ambush), henkirikos (felonious homicide). (various references) | |
French | criminel (felon). (various references) | |
German | verbrecherisch (criminal, criminally, dark). (various references) | |
Greek | εγκληματικόσ (criminal). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פלילי (judicial, penal), פשעי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gonosz (bad, black, black-hearted, catty, evil, fell, felon, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nefarious, rancorous, shabby, shrewd, spiteful, ungodly, vicious, viperous, wicked), büntetendő (culpable, culpable of punishment, guilty, penal). (various references) | |
Italian | criminale (criminal, outlaw). (various references) | |
Korean | 극악한 (heinous). (various references) | |
Manx | kimmee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eloniousfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | malvado (bad, black-hearted, candle-wick, evil, felon, flagitious, heavy, ill-conditioned, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, mischievous, nasty, nefarious, perverse, reprobate, scoundrelly, vicious, villain, wicked, wrong), criminoso (criminal, felon, flagitious, foul, gangster, guilty, maleficent, mobster, murderous, offender, outlaw, perpetrator, sinful). (various references) | |
Romanian | vinovat de delict, de infracţiune, criminal (criminal, criminally, felon, flagitious, malefactor, miscreant, misdemeanant, murderer, murderous, offender, outrageous, perpetrator, slayer). (various references) | |
Russian | преступный (criminal, culpable, flagitious, maleficent, malfeasant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zločinački (criminal, flagitious, miscreant). (various references) | |
Spanish | criminal (criminal, desperado, felon, guilty, lag, raider, ruffian, ruffianly, underworld, villain). (various references) | |
Swedish | kriminell (criminal, flash), brottslig (criminal, culpable, delinquent, delinquents, flagitious). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับความชั่วร้าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | suça yönelik, kasıtlı (aforethought, deliberate, designed, designedly, intended, intentional, meaning, prepense, purposely, studied, voluntary, wilful, willful), canice (criminal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | навмисний (advised, aforethought, calculated, deliberate, designed, forethought, industrious, intended, intentional, malicious, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wilful, willful), злочинний (criminal, culpable, flagitious, gallows, guilty, maleficent, malfeasant, offending, wrong, wrongful). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phạm tội ác (malfeasant), có tội (criminal, delinquent, sinful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "felonious": feloniously, feloniousness, feloniousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Felonious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: favonius, felinoids, feloneous, felonius. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "felonious" (pronounced felō"nēus) |
| 5 | -ō" n ē u s | acrimonious, erroneous, harmonious, sanctimonious, unceremonious. |
| 4 | -n ē u s | contemporaneous, extraneous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, instantaneous, miscellaneous, percutaneous, simultaneous, spontaneous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, fastidious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, hideous, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, previous, punctilious, radius, Sartorius, serious, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-n-o-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: elusion, floosie, foliose, folious, loonies, olefins, sulfone, unloose. | |
-3 letters: elfins, eloins, ensoul, felons, filose, flooie, foison, folios, fusile, fusion, infuse, insole, insoul, lesion, looies, loosen, louies, lunies, olefin, oleins, sinful, solion. | |
-4 letters: elfin, eloin, enols, eosin, felon, files, filos, fines, finos, flies, floes, flues, foils, foins, folio, fools, fouls, fuels, fusel, fusil, ileus. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-n-o-o-s-u" | |
+2 letters: feloniously. | |
+3 letters: counterfoils. | |
+4 letters: feloniousness, frivolousness, furazolidones, stoloniferous. | |
+5 letters: foundationless, lignosulfonate, nonfilamentous, reformulations, unprofessional. | |
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