Sin
Noun:
- A transgression against divine or moral law: An act, thought, or state considered to be a deliberate violation of religious or ethical principles.
- A serious offense or fault: A reprehensible action or a grave error in judgment.
- (Mathematics): In a right-angled triangle, the trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the length of the side opposite a given acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
Verb:
- To commit a sin: To act in a way that violates a religious or moral law.
- To commit an offense or serious error: To do something wrong or make a grave mistake.
Noun:
- Greed and envy are considered sins in many religions.
- It would be a sin to waste all this good food.
- Calculate the sine (sin) of the angle.
Verb:
- He believed he had sinned against God.
- I sinned by not telling her the truth.
"To live in sin": (idiomatic, somewhat dated) To live together as a couple without being married.
- Her parents disapproved because they were living in sin.
"As sin": (informal, used for emphasis) Very much, extremely (often describing a negative quality).
- He was ugly as sin.
- It's obvious as sin.
"For one's sins": (humorous) Used to suggest something is a punishment or burden one must endure.
- I'm the committee treasurer, for my sins.
Sinful (adj): Characterized by or involving sin; wicked.
- She felt guilty about her sinful thoughts.
Sinfulness (n): The state or quality of being sinful.
Sinner (n): A person who sins.
- The preacher called on all sinners to repent.
Sine (n): The standard mathematical abbreviation and spelling for the trigonometric function.
- Transgression: An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct.
- Wrongdoing: Illegal or dishonest behavior.
- Immorality: The state or quality of being morally wrong.
- Error: A mistake.
- Sin against: To violate or offend (a law, person, or principle).
- He felt he had sinned against his own conscience.
"Like sin": (informal) With great intensity or force.
- It's raining like sin out there.
"As miserable/ugly/plain as sin": Extremely miserable, ugly, or plain.
- The old house was as ugly as sin.
"To cover/hide a multitude of sins": To make faults or imperfections less noticeable.
- A fresh coat of paint can cover a multitude of sins in an old room.
"More sinned against than sinning": Deserving pity rather than blame; having suffered more wrong from others than one has committed oneself.
- In the story, the character is portrayed as more sinned against than sinning.
- violent and excited activity
- they began to fight like sin
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- estrangement from god
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- I blundered during the job interview
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law