Synonyms for iniquity
Most common
wickedness sin evil sinfulness injustice unfairness perversion
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Wickedness — an act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed
wickedness, sin, evil, sinfulness, abomination, wrong, immorality, depravity, crime, misdeed, infamy, atrocity, vice, error, outrage, offense US, offence UK, obliquity, peccability, transgression, villainy, impurity, degeneracy
2. Unfairness
3. Perversion — deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness
Definitions
- n. 1
Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.
- n. 2
An act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed.
Related words
- Word family
- iniquitous
- Is a kind of
- badness improbity injustice
Forms
- Plural
- iniquities → wickednesses, sins, evils, sinfulnesses…
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Iniquity, in the original sense, is a want of or a deviation from equity; but it is now applied in the widest sense to any form of ill-doing.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- evil Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
- sin Judaism doesn't believe in heritable original sin.
- wickedness The desire of wickedness came up in your heart.
- sinfulness An old enough sin loses its sinfulness.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| iniquity | rising | |
| evil | rising | |
| sin | rising | |
| wickedness | rising | |
| sinfulness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- sin1
- 4 letters
- evil2, vice1
- 5 letters
- wrong1, crime1, error2
- 6 letters
- infamy3
- 7 letters
- offense2, offence, outrage2, misdeed2
- 8 letters
- atrocity4, impurity4, villainy, baseness
- 9 letters
- injustice3, depravity4, obliquity
- 10 letters
- wickedness3, immorality5, perversion3, unfairness3, degeneracy5, sinfulness, shabbiness
- 11 letters
- abomination5, peccability
- 13 letters
- transgression3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).