Criminal vs Antiheroine - What's the difference?
criminal | antiheroine |
Being against the law; forbidden by law.
* Addison
Guilty of breaking the law.
* Rogers
Of or relating to crime or penal law.
* Hallam
(figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 (literature, gaming) A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Charles Isherwood, Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages, New York Times, url=
, passage=Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House”. }}
As nouns the difference between criminal and antiheroine
is that criminal is a person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law while antiheroine is a female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.As an adjective criminal
is being against the law; forbidden by law.criminal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.
- The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
- The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject were in some cases liable to criminal process.
- His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.
- ''Printing such asinine opinions without rebuttal is criminal , even when not libel!
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "criminal" is often applied: law, justice, court, procedure, prosecution, intent, case, record, act, action, behavior, code, offence, liability, investigation, conduct, defense, trial, history, responsibility, lawyer, tribunal, appeal, process, background, mind, conspiracy, evidence, gang, organization, underworld, jurisprudence, offender, jury, police, past, group, punishment, attorney, violence, report, career, psychology.Synonyms
* illegalDerived terms
* criminal conversation * criminalisation * criminalist * criminalistics * criminality * criminalize * criminal law * criminal-law * criminally * criminal negligence * criminalness * criminal-offence * criminal offence * criminal procedure * criminal recordNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}