Word Meanings - ENORMITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey. 2. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or

Additional info about word: ENORMITY

1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey. 2. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENORMITY)

• Crime
• Offense
• misdeed
• wrong
• misdemeanor
• felony
• enormity

Related words: (words related to ENORMITY)

• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• FELONY
  An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• MISDEAL
  The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
• OFFENSEFUL
  Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• CRIME
  which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
• MISDEMPT
  of Misdeem. Spenser.
• CRIMELESS
  Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• MISDEVOTION
  Mistaken devotion.
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• MISDEMEANOR
  A crime less than a felony. Wharton. Note: As a rule, in the old English law, offenses capitally punishable were felonies; all other indictable offenses were misdemeanors. In common usage, the word crime is employed to denote the offenses
• FALSICRIMEN
  The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
• AWRONG
  Wrongly. Ford.