delinquent
Behind on payments
Delinquent describes someone who fails to meet an obligation—typically financial or legal.
A delinquent account is past due; a delinquent borrower hasn't made payments.
The word also applies to young people who break laws or rules: juvenile delinquent, delinquent behavior.
As a noun, a delinquent is usually a young offender: The program aims to rehabilitate delinquents.
Failing in due care
- remissNeglectful of duty
- irresponsibleLacking sense of duty
- carelessInattentive, prone to mistakes
- derelictAbandoned or neglectful
lax · slack · defaulting · overdue · behind · in arrears · unpaid · outstanding
Unauthorized school no-show
- runawayOne who flees
- waywardStubbornly self-willed
- troublemakerOne who creates discord
- hooliganViolent young troublemaker
vandal · rowdy · ruffian · roughneck · gang member · dropout · underage · youth offender
Someone who plays tricks
- troublemakerOne who creates discord
- rascalLovable troublemaker
- scampMischievous young person
- impMinor mischief-making devil
scoundrel · rapscallion · hellion · tearaway · naughty · unruly · roguish · incorrigible
One who breaks rules
- felonSerious crime perpetrator
- convictJailed offender after trial
- culpritPerson found guilty
- perpetratorOne who commits wrongdoing
wrongdoer · lawbreaker · transgressor · miscreant · crook · gangster · mobster · hoodlum
Openly resisting control
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
- recalcitrantStubbornly resistant to control
- unrulyDifficult to control
contrary · resistant · nonconformist · dissident · mutinous · antiauthority · oppositional · contumacious
negligent
Failing in due care
- remissNeglectful of duty
- irresponsibleLacking sense of duty
- carelessInattentive, prone to mistakes
derelict · lax · slack · defaulting · overdue · behind · in arrears · unpaid · outstanding · past due
truant
Unauthorized school no-show
- runawayOne who flees
- waywardStubbornly self-willed
- troublemakerOne who creates discord
hooligan · vandal · rowdy · ruffian · roughneck · gang member · dropout · underage · youth offender · reform school
prankster
Someone who plays tricks
- troublemakerOne who creates discord
- rascalLovable troublemaker
- scampMischievous young person
imp · scoundrel · rapscallion · hellion · tearaway · naughty · unruly · roguish · incorrigible · misbehaving
offender
One who breaks rules
perpetrator · wrongdoer · lawbreaker · transgressor · miscreant · crook · gangster · mobster · hoodlum · thief
defiant
Openly resisting control
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
- recalcitrantStubbornly resistant to control
unruly · contrary · resistant · nonconformist · dissident · mutinous · antiauthority · oppositional · contumacious · ungovernable
- delinquentsjuvenile offender, young offender, youth offender, truant, hoodlum
- debtdebt, creditor, owe, debtor, lender
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- rule breakersrulebreaker, transgressor, violator, offender, lawbreaker
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, imps, brats, lawbreakers
- bad boysrebel, rogue, troublemaker, rascal, scoundrel
delinquentlaw-abiding
Following established rules
well-behaved · obedient · compliant · dutiful · upstanding
- juvenile delinquentYouth who commits crimes
- juvenile delinquencyCriminal acts by minors
- delinquent accountsPayments missed past deadline
- delinquent behaviorYouth criminal activity
- delinquent taxesLevies past their deadline
- delinquent actsCrimes by underage persons