delinquent

Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/

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

• (late or failing to pay a debt): defaulting

• delinquency
• juvenile delinquent
• moral delinquent

delinquent (plural delinquents)

1. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
2. A person who has not paid their debts.
3. (obsolete, derogatory) A term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642-1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

• See also Thesaurus:criminal

Borrowed from Latin dēlinquens.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeː.liˈkʋɛnt/, /ˌdeː.lɪŋˈkʋɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: de‧lin‧quent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

delinquent m (plural delinquenten, diminutive delinquentje n)

1. delinquent

• delinquant (obsolete)

• Afrikaans: delinkwent

dēlinquent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēlinquō