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Definition: Vicious |
ViciousAdjective1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks". 2. Having the nature of vice. 3. Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vicious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Vicious \Vi"cious\, adjective. [Old French expression vicious, French vicieux, from the Latin expression vitiosus, from vitium vice. See Vice fault.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ViciousSynonyms: barbarous (adj), brutal (adj), cruel (adj), depraved (adj), evil (adj), fell (adj), poisonous (adj), roughshod (adj), savage (adj), venomous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accusation | Accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable, unjustifiable; vicious. |
Deterioration | Pervert, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious. |
Disapprobation | Blameworthy, reprehensible; (guilt); to blame, worthy of blame; answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad; vicious. |
Reasoning, | False reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning; ignoratio elenchi; post hoc ergo propter hoc; non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius. |
Vice | Verb: be vicious; Adjective: sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats. |
Render vicious; Adjective: demoralize, brutalize; corrupt; (degrade). | |
Adjective: vicious; sinful; sinning;Verb: wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous, undutiful. | |
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Crosswords: Vicious |
| English words defined with "vicious": baseball swing, brutally, bucking bronco ♦ corrupting, Cribbing, Criticaster, cut ♦ degrading, Disordeined ♦ harpy, harridan ♦ Jadish ♦ reform school, rip out, rogue elephant ♦ savagely, snarl, swing ♦ The evil one ♦ Viced, viciously, villainy, Vitiousness ♦ Wind-sucking. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vicious": ASPERSE ♦ Black-guards ♦ Cattle ♦ Dance, Dogs ♦ Hackney Horses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vicious": Vitiosity. (references) |
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Screenplays | Him? Look at him, he's crazy! He's like a vicious little Chihuahua thing (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) I'm not kind, I'm vicious. It's the secret of my charm (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) I'll return those words back to you, Vicious. (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari) I want you to round up ever vicious criminal and gun slinger in the west (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) Oh, you mean 'cause of how the only guy that ever liked her turned into a vicious killer and had to be put down like a dog (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Not vicious or malicious (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite) This vicious circle's getting out of hand (I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That; performing artist: Elton John) With doubt the vicious circle (Because The Night; performing artist: Patti Smith) My vicious rhyme I call my masterpiece ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vicious Circle (1996) Lonely and Vicious Lost (1958) The Vicious Circle (1957) Vicious (2002) The Vicious Sweet (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The Revolutionary Communist Party and its chairman, Bob Avakian, are the target of the most vicious attack by the gov't since the '60s. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Wild animal; lion; tiger; beast; beastly; bestial; vicious; barbaric; barbarian; barbarous; savage. | Roar; bellow; gorilla; anthropoid ape; simian; primate; barbarous; bloodthirsty; dangerous; enraged; feral; ferocious; fiery; furious; infuriated; primitive; raging; savage; untamed; vicious; violent; wild; enraged; maddened; provoked. | ||
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Alexander Pope | Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree. |
Benjamin Franklin | Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. |
| Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. | |
Frank Sinatra | The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. |
Horace | False praise can please, and calumny affright, none but the vicious and the hypocrite. |
| Whom does false honour delight, or lying calumny terrify, except the vicious and sickly-minded? | |
James F. Cooper | Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | O glorious boon of age, if it does indeed free us from youth's most vicious fault. |
Thomas Paine | Human nature is not of itself vicious. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But though the golden age (before vain ambition, and amor sceleratus habendi, evil concupiscence, had corrupted men's minds into a mistake of true power and honour) had more virtue, and consequently better governors, as well as less vicious subjects, and there was then no stretching prerogative on the one side, to oppress the people; nor consequently on the other, any dispute about privilege, to lessen or restrain the power of the magistrate,* and so no contest betwixt rulers and people about governors or goveernment: yet, when ambition and luxury in future ages would retain and increase the power, without doing the business for which it was given; and aided by flattery, taught princes to have distinct and separate interests from their people, men found it necessary to examine more carefully the original and rights of government; and to find out ways to restrain the exorbitances, and prevent the abuses of that power, which they having intrusted in another's hands only for their own good, they found was made use of to hurt them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Secondly, no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is a vicious expedient of civilisation |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Vicious and cruel and impatient, like a frantic child, and the whole structure overlaid with amusement |
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Health | This DNA aggravates the already excessive stickiness of the mucus, setting up a vicious cycle of further airway obstruction, inflammation and infection. (references) | |
In addition, excessive straining, rubbing, or cleaning around the anus may cause irritation with bleeding and/or itching, which may produce a vicious cycle of symptoms. (references) | ||
Many scientists think that when the inflammatory process begins in the brain, it sets off a vicious cycle that includes the activation of microglia, interleukins (IL), cyclooxygenase (COX), complement, cytokines, and amyloid deposition. (references) | ||
Economic History | Burma | While both sides have held the substance of this dialogue in strictest confidence, there have been a number of good will gestures, including the release of some political prisoners and a halt to the vicious attacks on Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD by the government-owned press. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | When we tear aside the delusions and misconceptions which have blinded our countrymen to their condition under vicious tariff laws, we but show them how far they have been led away from the paths of contentment and prosperity. |
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| "Vicious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.29% of the time. "Vicious" is used about 883 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.29% | 859 | 8,231 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.71% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Total | 100.00% | 883 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vicious": barbarous brutal cruel fell roughshod savage vicious ♦ be vicious ♦ become vicious ♦ render vicious ♦ vicious circle ♦ vicious cycle ♦ vicious look ♦ vicious temper ♦ vicious tongue. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "vicious": vicious-looking. | |
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| Language | Translations for "vicious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me cen (faulty, flawed), i mbrapshtë (perverse), i lig (bad, basilisk, catty, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, felon, godless, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, nefarious, perverse, sinister, spiteful, wicked), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vile, wicked), i gabueshëm (erroneous, fallible, mistakable, wrongful), i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, wild). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, void, wicked, wrong), وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, wanton, wild), طالح (evil, wicked), ضار (detrimental, felled, ferocious, fierce, hurtful, impish, injurious, malign, malignant, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pest, poisonous, predatory, prejudicial, rabid, rapacious, ravenous, savage, set, sharp, truculent, unhealthy, unwholesome), خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, viperous, virulent, vulpine, wicked, wily), آثم (peccant, unholy, unrighteous), ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, villainous, watery), شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, wicked), شديد (acute, biting, boisterous, brusque, cordial, crass, dense, excruciating, extreme, forte, intense, intensive, keen, lusty, rigorous, shrill, stern, strong, telling, tempestuous, terrible, vehement, violent), باطل (bad, bootless, delusive, delusory, dud, ineffective, invalid, nugatory, null, null and void, obsolete, unfruitful, void, worthless). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, wretched), с лош нрав (balky, ill-conditioned), гневен (glaring, irate, ireful, wrathful), очеваден (apparent, evil, glaring, outrageous), неправилен (abnormal, anomalous, awry, defective, erroneous, false, faulty, improper, incorrect, injudicious, irregular, lame, mis-, mistaken, unequal, unfair, untrue, wrongful), зъл (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blackhearted, evil, ill, ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, malign, malignant, mean, scratchy, sinister, snaky, stuffy, sulphurous, swart, tricky, venomous, waspish, wicked), злостен (malignant, poisonous, spiteful, virulent), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, virulent), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, wicked, wrong), порочен (impure, iniquitous, poisonous, unregenerated, wicked), покварен (corrupt, depraved, gamy, godforsaken, graceless, obscene, peccant, scrofulous, wanton), погрешен (awry, erroneous, false, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, mis-, misguided, mistaken, off beat, perverse, unsound, untrue, wonky, wrong, wrongful), дефектен (defective, imperfect, incomplete, irregular). (various references) | |
Chinese | (Setaria viridis), 邪惡 (evil, sinister, wicked), '. (various references) | |
Czech | vadný (defective, deficient, faulty, imperfect), zpustlý (debauched, depraved, desolate, dissolute, raffish, rakish, uncared for), zlomyslný (bitchy, catty, despiteful, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, spiteful, unfriendly, unkind), zlý (bad, dirty, evil, evil-minded, ferocious, maleficent, malign, mean, niddering, rank, severe, unholy, wicked), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent), nemravný (dissolute, immoral, indecent, obscene, wanton), krutý (atrocious, bitter, brutal, cruel, dispiteous, extreme, fierce, gory, grim, hard, harsh, heartless, heathenish, rigid, ruthless, savage, severe, torsion, unkind, unrelenting, wolfish), chybný (erroneous, false, faulty, inaccurate, incorrect, lapsed, wrong), brutální (beastly, bestial, brutal, strong arm, subhuman, violent). (various references) | |
Danish | ond cirkel (vicious circle), circulus vitiosus (vicious circle). (various references) | |
Dutch | kwaadaardig (malicious, mischievous, nasty), boosaardig (malicious, mischievous, nasty). (various references) | |
Esperanto | maligna, malica (malicious, mischievous, nasty). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Gamy, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rake, Rancid, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vile, Villainous), نادرست (Amiss, Dishonest, Erroneous, False, Foul, Imprecise, Impure, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Inexact, Jackleg, Sinister, Spurious, Unfair, Unsound, Untrue), تباهکار, شریر (Bad, Heinous, Infernal, Naughty, Nefarious, Villain, Villainous, Viper, Wicked), بدکار (Bad, Evildoer, Nefarious, Rakish, Wicked), بدسگال (Mischievous), بدطینت (Malignant). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilkeä (bad, evil, loathsome, malicious, mischievous, nasty, naughty, wicked). (various references) | |
French | vicieux, perfide, méchant. (various references) | |
Frisian | glûpsk (insidious, malicious, mischievous, nasty). (various references) | |
German | lasterhaft (depraved, viciously, wicked), boshaft (catty, fiendish, impish, invidious, malevolent, malicious, maliciously, mischievous, mischievously, nasty, poisonous, shrewish, spiteful, spitefully, wicked), bösartig (ferocious, fierce, maleficent, malfeasant, malicious, maliciously, malignant, mischievous, mischievously, nasty, pernicious, virulent). (various references) | |
Greek | κακόσ (awful, bad, evil, ill, maleficent, mischievous, naughty, sinistrous, spiteful, wicked), βιτσιόζοσ, μοχθηρόσ (malicious, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, virulent), φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, pervert, reprobate, scoundrelly, sinister, unrighteous, vile, villain, villainous, wanton, wicked), φαύλος (nefarious), αισχρός (gross, obscene, ribald), διευθαρμένοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מושחת (corrupt, corruptible, debauchee, naughty, perverse, punk, rotten, sordid), מרושע (diabolic, evil, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, sinister, unholy, vile, villainous, wicked), לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, wanting), פ'ום (defective, faulty, lacunary, scaffold, staging). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rossz (as mischievous as a monkey, bad, baseness, be naughty, crappy, crook, crummy, disagreeable, disreputableness, evil, gimpy, half-assed, hank, harm, have the needles, ill, ill temper, ill-treatment, incorrect, iniquitous, maleficent, meagre, mischief, mischievous, miserable, misgiving, naff, nasty, naughty, poor, punk, raunchy, shabby excuse, sleazo, sleazy, sniffy, stinky, tin-pot, to be in a bad way, to be on bad terms with sy, to be on the wrong track, to be out of kilter, to feel poorly, to go the wrong way, to go to the bad, to make bad weather, unsavory, unsavoury, wrong), harapós (acrimonious, cantankerous, snapper, snapping, snappish, snappy, spiky, venomous), gonosz (bad, black, black-hearted, catty, evil, fell, felon, felonious, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nefarious, rancorous, shabby, shrewd, spiteful, ungodly, viperous, wicked), erkölcstelen (bawdy, corrupt, dirty, dissipated, filth, filthy, immoral, lewd, loose, meretricious, profligate, rotten, unmoral, unprincipled), bûnös (criminal, culpable, culprit, delinquent, found guilty, guilty, miscreant, offender, peccant, sinful, sinner, wicked). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ganas (ferocious, malignant, savage), galak (fierce, frantic, gruff, impudent, plucky, sharp and mean, snappish, surly). (various references) | |
Italian | vizioso (deraved, lecherous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悪質 (bad quality, malignancy, malignant), あか抜ける (excessive, gaudy, Happy New Year, showy, skips-most-stations Jouetsu-line shinkansen, to refine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あくしつ (bad quality, malignancy, malignant, malignant or virulent disease), あくどい (excessive, gaudy, showy). (various references) | |
Korean | 맹 한 (fierce, Rabid). (various references) | |
Manx | roonagh (ill intentioned; runic, malicious, malignant, perverse, secret, stubborn, vindictive), olkyssagh (baleful, elfish, evilly-disposed, iniquitous, malicious, malignant, mischief-maker, mischievous, naughty, wicked), olk (bad, bad-hearted, bad-looking, evil, ill, injury, lousy, mischief, morally wrong, naughtiness, truculence, unfavourable, vice, wicked), loghtagh (bad, bad incorrect, blameable, blameworthy, culpable, defaulter, defective, delinquent, fault-finding, faulty, illgotten, iniquitous, offending), keoie (crazy, fiery, frenetic, frenzied, furious, insane, lunatic, maniac, savage, wild, wild as person). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iciousvay.(various references) | |
Polish | złośliwy (malicious, mischievous, nasty). (various references) | |
Portuguese | perverso (cantankerous, damnable, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill-conditioned, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, perverse, sinful, unjust, unnatural, unrighteous, vile, villainous, viperous, wicked). (various references) | |
Romanian | viciat (bad, corrupt, foul, polluted, tainted, vitiated), vicios (addict, depraved, inveterate, nefarious), pervertit (corrupt, perverse, perverted, sophisticated), defectuos (bad, faultily, faulty, imperfect), depravat (debauchee, depraved, graceless, loose, obliquitous, profligate), greşit (abroad, Amiss, astray, awry, bad, badly, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, false, faultily, faulty, incorrect, misled, mistaken, out of square, perverse, spurious, unfair, unjust, unlawful, wrong, wrongheaded), hain (averse, cruel, hostile, wicked), nãrãvaş (bad tempered, balky, flighty, restive, restless, unmanageable), nãrãvit, abraş (wicked), pervers (graceless, obliquitous, perversely, perverted, wicked), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), rãutãcios (catty, elfish, jeering, jeeringly, malicious, malignant, mischievous, spiteful, wicked), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vitiated), urâcios (disagreeable, disgusting, grumpy, hideous, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly, villainous, wicked), urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, villainous, wicked), nãrãvos. (various references) | |
Russian | грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean), норовистый (balky, rogue), злой (bad tempered, bad-tempered, blackhearted, black-hearted, cattish, evil, evil-minded, fractious, ill disposed, ill natured, ornery, puckish, scathing, squinteyed, surly, unkind, vixenish), порочный (evil, perverse, unholy), дефектный (defective, unsound). (various references) | |
Scottish | gnoigean (ball of rosin put on horns of vicious cattle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zloban (despiteful, invidious, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, mean, meanspirited, ornery, rancorous, sardonic, viperous), poročan (graceless, unchaste, unhallowed, wicked), pakostan (ill, ill disposed, invidious, malevolent, malicious, mean, meanspirited, spiteful), opasan (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, girded, hazardous, parlous, perilous, pernicious, tight, treacherous, ugly, uncanny, unsafe, venturous), nemoralan (cankered, immoral, non moral, unprincipled, wanton), žestok (bitter, blistering, boisterous, intense, mettled, mettlesome, racy, right-down, rough and tumble, severe, uncanny, vehement, violent, white hot). (various references) | |
Spanish | vicioso, depravado (degenerate, depraved, putrid, raddled), astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, mischievous, nasty, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, sleeky, slick, sly, smart, tricky, wide, wily, worldly wise). (various references) | |
Swedish | vanartig (naughty), lastbar (licentious), ilsken (angry, bilious, cranky, cross, ferocious, fierce, furious, humpy, irate, livid, mad, savage, shirty, ugly). (various references) | |
Turkish | kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, wicked, worse, wrongful), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), haince (mephistophelean, mephistophelian, traitorous, treacherously, ungratefully, venomous, viperously), fena (angrily, bad, badly, evil, foul, ill, malicious, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly, sinful, sinister, unholy, wicked), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, wrong), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, wanton, wicked). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gabahatзylyk (entrapment, vicious scheme). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбещуючий, злий (bad, bad tempered, bitter, blackhearted, carping, evil, ill, ill natured, puckish, snappish, snotty, wicked), порочний (cammed, dark, depraved, gallows, naughty, perverse, rampant, wicked). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xấu xa (cankerous, ignominious, nameless, ugly, unholy), không hợp cách, hỏng (addle, broken-down, depraved, unsuccessful), đ"i bại xấu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | prava, pravae, pravam, pravis, pravo, pravorum, pravum, vitiosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vicious": viciously, viciousness, viciousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Vicious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dioicus, vaccous, vacious, vacous, vecious, viceous, vicioius, vicous, vicsious, vicsous, victious, vicus, vilious, viscious, visious, vocibus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vicious" (pronounced vi"shus) |
| 4 | -i" sh u s | ambitious, auspicious, capricious, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, inauspicious, injudicious, judicious, malicious, nutritious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | anxious, atrocious, audacious, capacious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, efficacious, facetious, fallacious, ferocious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, infectious, loquacious, luscious, nauseous, noxious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, precious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, salacious, sebaceous, semiprecious, spacious, specious, subconscious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-o-s-u-v" | |
-4 letters: cis, cos, sic, sou, vis. | |
-5 letters: is, os, si, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-o-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: vicarious, viciously, virtuosic, vivacious. | |
+3 letters: avaricious, lascivious, victorious. | |
+4 letters: declivitous, microvillus, mischievous, piscivorous, vicariously, viciousness, viscounties, vivaciously, voyeuristic. | |
+5 letters: avariciously, compulsivity, constitutive, cultivations, inconclusive, incurvations, lasciviously, microvillous, picornavirus, vesiculation, victoriously, viscountcies. | |
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