Word Meanings - MISDEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An evil deed; a wicked action. Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. Milton. Syn. -- Misconduct; misdemeanor; fault; offense; trespass; transgression; crime.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISDEED)

• Crime
• Offense
• misdeed
• wrong
• misdemeanor
• felony
• enormity
• Fault
• Defect
• error
• imperfection
• flaw
• failure
• omission
• want
• drawback
• Indiscretion
• Misconduct
• misbehavior
• misdoing
• dereliction
• delinquency
• lapse
• trip
• slip
• blot
• trespass
• peccadillo
• Offence
• Attack
• sin
• crime
• umbrage
• transgression
• injury
• affront
• outrage
• insult
• indignity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MISDEED)

• Respect
• salute
• honor
• praise
• flatter
• compliment
• gratify

Related words: (words related to MISDEED)

• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• FELONY
  An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• PECCADILLO
  A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• PROLAPSE
  The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.