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Definitions for: Wicked
[adj] morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
[adj] intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough"
[adj] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
[adj] having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person"
[adj] morally bad in principle or practice
Webster (1913) Definition: Wicked, a.
Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a
two-wicked lamp.
Wick"ed, a. [OE. wicked, fr. wicke wicked; probably
originally the same word as wicche wizard, witch. See
Witch.]
1. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality;
contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or
sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and
things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed;
wicked designs.
Hence, then, and evil go with thee along, Thy
offspring, to the place of evil, hell, Thou and thy
wicked crew! --Milton.
Never, never, wicked man was wise. --Pope.
2. Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
[Obs.] ``Wicked dew.'' --Shak.
This were a wicked way, but whoso had a guide. --P.
Plowman.
3. Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to
mischief; roguish. [Colloq.]
Pen looked uncommonly wicked. --Thackeray.
Syn: Iniquitous; sinful; criminal; guilty; immoral; unjust;
unrighteous; unholy; irreligious; ungodly; profane;
vicious; pernicious; atrocious; nefarious; heinous;
flagrant; flagitious; abandoned. See Iniquitous.
Synonyms: atrocious, bad, black, corruptive, dark, demonic, depraved, despicable, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, evil, evil-minded, fiendish, flagitious, foul, grievous, heavy, heinous, hellish, immoral, infernal, iniquitous, intense, irreclaimable, irredeemable, loathly, loathsome, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, monstrous, nefarious, peccable, peccant, perversive, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, satanic, severe, sinful, sinister, skanky, terrible, ugly, ungodly, unholy, unredeemable, unreformable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, yucky
Antonyms: good, virtuous
See Also: impious, offensive, unrighteous, wicked, wrong
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