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Delinquent vs Deviant - What's the difference?

delinquent | deviant |

As adjectives the difference between delinquent and deviant

is that delinquent is late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan while deviant is of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.

As nouns the difference between delinquent and deviant

is that delinquent is one who disobeys or breaks rules or laws while deviant is a person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.

delinquent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
  • Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
    The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
  • Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
  • Synonyms

    * (late or failing to pay a debt) defaulting

    Derived terms

    * delinquency * juvenile delinquent * moral delinquent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    deviant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
  • At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
  • He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
  • A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
  • As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant .

    See also

    (defiant)

    References

    * Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----