delinquent

Meanings

Adjective

• Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
• Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

Noun

• One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
• A person who has not paid their debts.
• A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).

Related

Similar words

• defaulting
• cavalier

Origin

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