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- [vish-uh s]
- /ˈvɪʃ əs/
- /ˈvɪʃ.əs/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [vish-uh s]
- /ˈvɪʃ əs/
Definitions of vicious word
- adjective vicious addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life. 1
- adjective vicious given or readily disposed to evil: a vicious criminal. 1
- adjective vicious reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception. 1
- adjective vicious spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip; a vicious attack. 1
- adjective vicious unpleasantly severe: a vicious headache. 1
- adjective vicious characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound: vicious reasoning. 1
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Origin of vicious
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; Middle English (< Anglo-French) < Latin vitiōsus, equivalent to viti(um) fault, vice1 + -ōsus -ous
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Parts of speech for Vicious
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
vicious popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
vicious usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for vicious
adj vicious
- accidentally on purpose — Deliberately, though apparently accidentally.
- all out — not at one's home or place of employment; absent: I stopped by to visit you last night, but you were out.
- amoral — If you describe someone as amoral, you do not like the way they behave because they do not seem to care whether what they do is right or wrong.
- bad — If you say that it is bad that something happens, you mean it is unacceptable, unfortunate, or wrong.
- barbarian — In former times, barbarians were people from other countries who were thought to be uncivilized and violent.
noun vicious
- atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
- barbarity — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
- bile — Bile is a liquid produced by your liver which helps you to digest fat.
- biles — Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
adjective vicious
- abusive — Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
- aper — a person who apes, a mimic
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- barbaric — If you describe someone's behaviour as barbaric, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
Antonyms for vicious
adj vicious
- bullier — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- de luxe — (esp of products, articles for sale, etc) rich, elegant, or sumptuous; superior in quality, number of accessories, etc
- good — Graph-Oriented Object Database
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
noun vicious
adjective vicious
- rad — Informal. radical.
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