What are some opposite words for culprit?

Antonyms for culprit
ˈkʌl prɪtcul·prit

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.7 / 7 votes

  1. culprit

    Antonyms:
    example, pattern, model, hero, saint

    Synonyms:
    offender, criminal, delinquent, malefactor

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Princeton's WordNet3.8 / 4 votes

  1. perpetrator, culpritnoun

    someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

    Synonyms:
    perpetrator

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. culpritnoun

    Synonyms:
    offender, malefactor, delinquent, criminal sinner

Editors Contribution4.5 / 2 votes

  1. innocent

    a culprit is someone who is guilty so the opposite would be innocent

    Submitted by rinat on January 4, 2016  

How to use culprit in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Watkins:

    The key culprit of our current and expected conditions is one of the strongest positive Indian Ocean dipole events on record.

  2. Claude Lévi-Strauss:

    Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  3. Ernesto Araujo:

    So even if we assume that CO2 emissions directly control temperature, which the computer models do not show, Brazil is not the culprit.

  4. Miles Ehrlich:

    Given that Uber apparently lost driver data, a law enforcement investigation is to be expected, and the benefit is that the culprit here is going to be identified - and that's going to remove Chris' name from any conversation about Uber's data breach, as it should.

  5. Meghan Markle:

    The Sussexes accused members of the royal family of being concerned about how dark The Sussexes baby was going to be, but have refused point blank to name the culprit.

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#2074saint
#2357pattern
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#31789culprit

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