delinquentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/

形容詞

delinquent (comparative more delinquent, superlative most delinquent)

1. 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.

2. Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

同意語

• (late または failing to pay a debt): defaulting

派生語

• delinquency
• juvenile delinquent
• moral delinquent

名詞

delinquent (複数形 delinquents)

1. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 269:

     She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of "guid King James's whipping-boy," when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper.

2. A person who has not paid their debts.
3. (historical, derogatory) A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).

使用する際の注意点

In relation to the royalist sense, Charles I of England was known as "the chief delinquent".

同意語

• (one who breaks the law): See also Thesaurus:criminal
• (royalist): cavalier