sin
Noun
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Estrangement from god (synset 104835188)
hypernym: unrighteousness - failure to adhere to moral principleshyponym: mark of cain - the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful naturesynonym: sinfulness, wickedness
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An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will (synset 100758433)
hypernym: evildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principlehyponym:
- fall - a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- actual sin - a sin committed of your own free will (as contrasted with original sin)
- original sin - a sin said to be inherited by all descendants of Adam
- deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
- venial sin - a pardonable sin regarded as entailing only a partial loss of grace
synonym: sinning -
Ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle (synset 113809591)
hypernym: circular function, trigonometric function - function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the anglesynonym: sine
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(Akkadian) god of the Moon;
Counterpart of Sumerian Nanna (synset 109545129)domain region: mesopotamia - the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraqinstance hypernym: semitic deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites -
The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet (synset 106851918)
hypernym: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speechpart meronym: hebraic alphabet, hebrew alphabet, hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
Verb
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Commit a sin;
Violate a law of God or a moral law (synset 202571602)hypernym: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate - act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promiseshyponym: fall - yield to temptation or sinsynonym: transgress, trespass -
Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake (synset 202572142)
"I blundered during the job interview"hypernym: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate - act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
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