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You might not want to be the one at the party who takes the last piece of cake, but then again, it would be a sin to let it sit there, uneaten. A sin is a deeply regrettable action.

The most common definition of sin is religious: it's an immoral act against God or divine law. Any serious offense, even if it's not religious, can be called a sin, and so can something less serious if you're talking about it in a joking way, as in, "You've got to buy those shoes — it would be an absolute sin not to." In math, sin is the abbreviation of sine, the trigonometric function.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: sin

1	n v	an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
2	n	the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
3	n	ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: sin

n an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

Synonyms:: sinning

Types:: show 12 types...; hide 12 types...; 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; pride, superbia
unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins); envy, invidia
spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins); avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); acedia, laziness, sloth
apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins); anger, ira, ire, wrath
belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins); gluttony, gula, overeating
eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins); lust, luxuria
self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Type of:: evildoing, transgression
the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

n estrangement from god

Synonyms:: sinfulness, wickedness

Types:: mark of Cain
the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature

Type of:: unrighteousness
failure to adhere to moral principles

n violent and excited activity

“they began to fight like sin”

Synonyms:: hell

Type of:: activity
any specific behavior

v commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

Synonyms:: transgress, trespass

Types:: fall
yield to temptation or sin

Type of:: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate
act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

v commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

Synonyms:: blunder, boob, drop the ball, goof

Type of:: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate
act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

n the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Type of:: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech

n ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

Synonyms:: sine

Type of:: circular function, trigonometric function
function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle

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