delinquent

See also Delinquent

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/

Adjective

delinquent (comparative more delinquent, superlative most delinquent)

1. Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

   Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.

   The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.

2. Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

Synonyms

• (late or failing to pay a debt): defaulting

Translations

late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation

• German: säumig (de)

• Spanish: moroso (es)

Derived terms

• delinquency
• juvenile delinquent
• moral delinquent

Noun

delinquent (plural delinquents)

1. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
2. (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:criminal

Translations

one who breaks the law

• Bulgarian: нарушител (bg) m (narušitel), виновник (bg) m (vinovnik)
• Finnish: rikollinen (fi)
• French: délinquant (fr) m
• German: Delinquent (de), Krimineller (de) m

• Italian: delinquente (it) m and f
• Japanese: Cohojo naira (ja)
• Portuguese: delinquente (pt) c
• Spanish: delincuente (es)

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Latin

Verb

dēlinquent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēlinquō