Criminal \Crim"i*nal\ (kr?m"?-nal), a. [L. criminalis, fr.
   crimen: cf. F. criminel. See Crime.]
   1. Guilty of crime or sin.
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            The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us
            criminal in the sight of God.         --Rogers.
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   2. Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an
      act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
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            Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications
            of vice, not criminal in themselves.  --Addison.
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   3. Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal
      code.
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            The officers and servants of the crown, violating
            the personal liberty, or other right of the subject
            . . . were in some cases liable to criminal process.
                                                  --Hallam.
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   Criminal action (Law), an action or suit instituted to
      secure conviction and punishment for a crime.

   Criminal conversation (Law), unlawful intercourse with a
      married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim.
      con.

   Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.
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	Criminal \Crim"i*nal\, n.
   One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found
   guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a
   felon.
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	211 Moby Thesaurus words for "criminal":
   Judas, Mafioso, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable,
   against the law, amoral, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic,
   arraignable, arrant, at fault, atrocious, bad, bad guy, bad person,
   base, betrayer, black, black-market, blackguard, blamable,
   blameworthy, bootleg, censurable, chargeable, conscienceless,
   contraband, contrary to law, convict, corrupt, corrupted, crook,
   crooked, culpable, culprit, damnable, dark, deceiver, delinquent,
   depraved, desperado, desperate criminal, deviant, devious,
   disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealer, doubtful,
   dubious, evasive, evil, evildoer, evildoing, execrable, faulty,
   felon, felonious, fishy, flagitious, flagrant, flawed, foul,
   fraudulent, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, guilty,
   hardly the thing, heinous, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, ignominious,
   ill-got, ill-gotten, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral,
   impeachable, impermissible, implicated, improper, inappropriate,
   incorrect, inculpated, indecorous, indictable, indirect, infamous,
   iniquitous, insidious, involved, irregular, jailbird, justiciable,
   knave, knavish, lawbreaker, lawless, low, malefactor, malefactory,
   malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, miscreant, misfeasor, mobster,
   monstrous, naughty, nefarious, nonconstitutional, nonlegal,
   nonlicit, not done, not kosher, not the thing, off-base, off-color,
   offender, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, peccant, public enemy,
   punishable, questionable, quisling, racketeer, rank, reprehensible,
   reproachable, reprobate, reprovable, rotten, roughneck, ruffian,
   sacrilegious, scandalous, scofflaw, scoundrel, shady, shameful,
   shameless, shifty, sinful, sinister, sinner, slippery, suspicious,
   swindler, terrible, terrorist, thief, thug, to blame, tough,
   traitor, transgressor, trespasser, triable, tricky, two-timer,
   unallowed, unauthorized, unconscienced, unconscientious,
   unconscionable, unconstitutional, under-the-counter,
   under-the-table, underhand, underhanded, undue, unethical, unfit,
   unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unofficial, unpardonable,
   unprincipled, unrighteous, unsavory, unscrupulous, unseemly,
   unspeakable, unstatutory, unstraightforward, unsuitable,
   unwarrantable, unwarranted, unworthy, vicious, vile, villain,
   villainous, wicked, without remorse, without shame, worker of ill,
   wrong, wrongdoer, wrongdoing, wrongful

	

	CRIMINAL. Relating to, or having the character of crime; as, criminal law, 
criminal conversation, &c. It also signifies a person convicted of a crime.