Offender

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who offends; one who transgresses or violates a law, whether human or divine; one who infringes rules and regulations; one who acts contrary to the rights of others, or to social rule or custom; one who displeases or annoys; one who gives offense, or incurs the dislike or resentment of another.
  • noun. Synonyms Offender, Delinquent, culprit. Offender differs from delinquent in that a delinquent is, strictly, a negative transgressor, one who neglects to comply with the requirements of the law, whereas an offender is a positive transgressor, one who violates law or social rule. Both are general words, covering the offenses or delinquencies under divine or human laws, social usages, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who gives or causes offense.
  • noun. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who transgresses moral or civil law
  • Word Usage
    "The main offender is Suresh, who has suddenly developed a total fascination with superpowers and whether it would be possible to give superpowers to regular people."