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Vile

Definition: Vile

Vile

Adjective

1. Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them".

2. (informal) thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having".

3. Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Vile \Vile\, adjective. [Comp. Viler; superlative Vilest.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Vili

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Norse mythology, Vili was one of the Aesir and a son of Bestla and Bor. His brothers were Ve and Odin. He was known for having given humanity emotion and intelligence. He may have had an affair with Odin's wife, Frigg.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vili."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Vile

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

VILE

EnglishVI Like EMACSComputer - (Unix, VI, EMACS)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Vile

Synonyms: despicable (adj), filthy (adj), foul (adj), loathsome (adj), nasty (adj), nauseating (adj), nauseous (adj), noisome (adj), offensive (adj), sickening (adj), ugly (adj), unworthy (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vile

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Commonalty

Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

Disrepute

Ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base; (dishonorable).

Improbity

Infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.

Inexpedience

Vile, base, villainous; mean; (paltry); injured; deteriorated; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par; (imperfect); illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful; (painful).

Pain

Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous.

Piety

Phrase: ne vile fano; "pure-eyed Faith.. thou hovering angel girt with golden wings".

Prisoner

Adjective: imprisoned; in prison, in quod, in durance vile, in limbo, in custody, doing time, in charge, in chains; under lock and key, under hatches; on parole.

Restraint

Confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade.

Temple

Phrase: ne vile fano; "there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple".

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Vice

Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Vile

English words defined with "vile": A whited sepulcherdespicable, dirty, Doghole, Dungyfilthy, foulInvilelousynastyOffscouringProstitutorRakeshameScabbedugly, unworthyVild, Viled, vilely, Villanize. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vile": Captain AbstractionDraught-house, DuchesneHebertistsMisnomersNaughty FigsPere Duchene, PickwickianRamsbottomWick, Wicked. (references)
Etymologies containing "vile": Vill. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vile" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (bunch, cluster, raceme), Italian (base, caitiff, cowardly, dastard, filthy, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, low, mean, scurvy, sneaking, vile, worthless), Latin (cheap, common, mean, worthless), Serbo-Croatian (dung fork, fork, hayfork).

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Modern Usage: Vile

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Jafar! You vile betrayer (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

Vile weed (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Then I come back to the world, and I see all those maggots at the airport, protestin' me, spittin', callin' me a baby killer and all kinds of vile crap (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll)

You're not as vile as I thought you were (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)

Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves acursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks, that fought with us upon St. Crispin's day (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare)

Lyrics

Lurid, licentious, and vile, (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

They're rude, crude and vile (I Can't Watch This; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Movie/TV Titles

Vile Bodies (1970)

Iggy Vile M.D. (1999)

Vile 21 (1998)

Vilovanje Joze Vile (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Vile

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Vile Justice: A Mystery of Ancient Egypt (reference)

  • The Vile File: Jokes too Sick for the Stage (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Vile

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Vile

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Storing sample material in a vile prior to storing in liquid nitrogen. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Vile

AuthorQuotation

Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Johannes Eckhard

I say, no creature is so vile but it can boast of being; in proportion to its being is its power of being God, for whatever is being, is God.

Leo J. Muir

The vulgar story is Sin's frivolous comedy. For those whom this vile amusement enthralls he later stages his sad and dismal tragedies.

William Shakespeare

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Vile

TitleAuthorQuote

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

My lord, you do me shameful injury Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Vile

"Vile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vile" is used about 274 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%27417,727

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Vile

The following table summarizes the usage of "vile" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
VileLast name13059,346
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Vile

Expressions using "vile": ne vile fano vile weather. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "vile": vile-smelling, vile-tasting.

Ending with "vile": cad-vile.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vile

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vile

48

book of vile darkness

7

john vile

7

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5

tribe vile xenobia

5

seuss vile

5

jadranu na vile

4

valo vile

4

book darkness download vile

3

ce est qu qu une vile

3

case constructii vile

3

nelly vile

3

depopulate vile

3

cheie la vile

2

stefan sveti vile

2

body evelyn vile waugh

2

case cheie la vile

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Vile

Language Translations for "vile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, villainous, vulgar), i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, villainous), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, villainous), 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, vicious, wicked). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏منحط (base, decadent, degenerate, degraded, ignoble, low, low down, low-grade, lowly, mean), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous), ‏وضيع (contemptible, cowardly, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scabby, scaly, scruffy, scurvy, slavish, slight, snide), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, worthless), ‏صعلوك (ragamuffin, wretch), ‏خسيس (abject, base, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, ignoble, loon, lousy, low, lowly, mean, paltry, pooch, reptile, ruffian, scruffy, servile, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, small change, sordid, villainous), ‏جدير بالازدراء (cowardly), ‏دنيء (dirty, shabby, sordid, villainous). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

срамен (infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful), унизителен (abject, degrading, humiliating), гнусен (abhorrent, heinous, loathsome, obscene, ugly), гаден (abominable, creepy, filthy, loathsome, nameless, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, villainous, yukky), низък (abject, base, contemptible, degraded, ignoble, low down, low-minded, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, paltry, scaly, scurvy, unworthy, villainous, yellow), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed), без никаква стойност, противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, villainous), подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, villainous), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scaly, scurvy, shady, under, unworthy, villainous). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

惡劣 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

oplzlý (bawdy, dirty, gross, impure, lewd, obscene, salacious, scurrilous, uncouth), ohavný (abominable, despicable, detestable, execrable, ghastly, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrid, odious, ugly, unspeakable, villainous), odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous), nièemný (caitiff, contemptible, despicable, miscreated, rascally, roguish, scampish, scoundrelly, villainous, worthless), mizerný (abysmal, bad, bleeding, bum, cheap, crappy, crummy, dismal, foul, lousy, miserable, painful, paltry, rotten, stingy, tinpot, wretched), hnusný (abhorrent, beastly, detestable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, feculent, foul, horrible, loathsome, revolting, stinking, verminous), hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, horrendous, ignoble, ignominious, nasty, nefarious, scurvy, shameful, sordid, squalid, unspeakable, villainous). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

laaghartig (abject, base, low, nasty), laag (abject, base, deep, layer, low, nasty), infaam (abject, base, low, nasty), gemeen (abandoned, abject, base, low, nasty). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malnobla (abject, base, low, nasty). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Gamy, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rake, Rancid, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Villainous), فرومایه (Abject, Base, Brassy, Currish, Ignoble, Knave, Low), پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Little, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart), شرم ور, بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Rake, Reprobate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

katala (base, ignoble, mean), alhainen (low, mean). (various references)

   

French

  

vil (villainous), lâche, infect, infâme (villainous), abominable, abject. (various references)

   

German

  

gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked), wertlos (dud, frivolous, hollow, meritless, nugatory, of no value, paltry, rubbishy, trashy, valueless, worthless, worthlessly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακοήθησ (malicious, nasty, wicked), πρόστυχοσ (bitchy, caddish, cheap, coarse, common, hangdog, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, raffish, ratty, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, sordid, vulgar), χαμερπήσ (base, caitiff, cringer, groveller, sneak, sneaky, toadyish), φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, pervert, reprobate, scoundrelly, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, villain, villainous, wanton, wicked), αχρείοσ (depraved, foul, infamous, miscreant, rascal, rascally, scoundrel, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, villainous). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מתועב (abhorrent, abominable, atrocious, execrable, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, infamous, repulsive), מרושע (diabolic, evil, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, sinister, unholy, vicious, villainous, wicked), שפל (base, degeneration, ebb, humble, indolent, lousy, low, low down, low tide, lowliness, mean, mean-spirited, meek, minimum, miscreant, ornery, recession, scabby, scamp, shabby, sordid), בזוי (abasement, abashment, abject, contempt, contemptible, cursed, deprecation, despicable, despised, despising, ignominius, measly, menial, pitiful), תעב (abhorred, abominable, detestable, foul, gruesome, hateful, loathsome, obnoxious, odious), קל" (contemptible, despised, trifle). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hitvány (bloody, caddish, dastardly, despicable, grovelling, mean, naught, perfidious, pitiable, punk, raffish, rascally, rinky-dink, rubbishy, scummy, scurvied, scurvy, shoddy, skunk, sordid, squalid, tin-pot, trashy, worthless). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

melarat (impecunious, ratty). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vile (base, caitiff, cowardly, dastard, filthy, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, low, mean, scurvy, sneaking, worthless), turpe (filthy, foul, obscene), nefando (wicked), infame (abject, flagitious, infamous, iniquitous, mean, scurvier, scurvily, villainous), abietto (abject, base, degraded, despicable, groveling, grovelling, low, unrighteous), abbietto (abject, base, scurvy, servile, slavish). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

卑しい (base, greedy, humble, mean, shabby, vulgar). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いやしい (base, greedy, humble, mean, shabby, vulgar). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dwoaieagh (abominable, detestable, hated, hateful). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

baho (abject, base, low, nasty). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilevay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vil (base, caitiff, carrion, despicable, dirty, ignoble, lily-livered, lousy, low-down, low-minded, mean, nasty, nefarious, paltry, picayune, rascally, reptile, rotten, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, slavish, sneaking, sordid, ugly, villainous), torpe (lousy, nasty, ribald, shameful), perverso (cantankerous, damnable, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill-conditioned, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, perverse, sinful, unjust, unnatural, unrighteous, vicious, villainous, viperous, wicked), moralmente inferior, mau (bad, bum, dark, evil, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, nasty, perverse, poor, punk, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, villainous, wrong), indigno (dishonorable, dishonourable, outrageous, scandal, shameful, undeserving, undignified, unmeet, unworthy, worthless), depravado (bestial, depraved, deviant, miscreant, profligate, raffish, rep, vicious, wasteful), abjeto (abject, contemptible, reptile, servile, slavish). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vulgar (base, broad, churlish, coarse, common, gross, large, low, low-lived, unrefined, vulgar, vulgarly), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), spurcat (base, dirty, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, soiled), scelerat (scoundrel, villain, villainous, wicked, wretch), scârnav (disgusting, filthy, foul, grubby, smutty), scârbos (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, bloody, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, fulsome, ghastly, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, unpleasant, verminous), 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, vicious, wicked, wretched, wrong), netrebnic (a dirty dog, good for nothing, knave, knavish, picaroon, rascal, reprobate, scab, sneak, useless, villain, worthless, wretch), josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, dirty, grovelling, grubby, infamous, little, low, low-minded, mean, meanly, nasty, paltry, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, slavish, sordid, sordidly), infect (foul, rotten, stinking, wretched), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, obscene, odious, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury), de nimic (futile), chiolhãnos (scoundrel, villain). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подлый (base, dastardly, despicable, dirty, ignoble, mean, meanspirited, mean-spirited, rascally, reprobate, reptile, scoundrelly, scummy, sneaking, villainous, wormy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

podao (abject, caitiff, knavish, lousy, low down, scurvy), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely), nizak (base, low, low-, lowly, low-pitched, short), loš (abominable, bad, gross, lousy, mean, miserable, poor, refuse, shoddy, trashy), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, ugly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vil (abject, contemptible, cur, despicable, foul, lousy, low, low down, lower, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, nefarious, rotten, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, squalid), terrero (infamous, iniquitous), infame (infamous, nefarious, odious, villain), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, wicked), detestable (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, awful, damnable, detestable, hateful, horrible, loathful, loathsome, obnoxious, odious, terrible). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

värdelös (chaffy, cheesy, crappy, fustian, naught, ne'erdoweel, no go, null, punk, straw, trivial, trumpery, useless, valueless, worthless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, villainous). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

грішний (errant, peccant, sinful, wicked), відворотний, підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, yellow dog), паскудний (abject, bawdy, cheesy, nasty, obscene, scald, trashy). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vinegar), kém (coarse, less, low, poor, third-rate), hèn hạ (abject, base, basely, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dirty, dishonourable, meanly, picayune, poor, scabbily, scurvy, shabby), đê hèn t"i. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

salw (mean, poor, ugly), gwael (bad, base, ill, poor, poorly, sick), budr (dirty, filthy, foul), bawaidd (dirty, mean, sordid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vile

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

contempta, contempto, contemptorum, contemptos, contemptum, contemptus, foedam, foede, foedum, foedus, inferam, inferas, inferi, inferior, inferiora, inferiorem, inferiores, inferiori, inferioribus, inferioris, inferis, inferne, infero, inferorum, inferos, inferus, nequam, sordida, sordidam, sordidis, sordido, sordidos, sordidum, vilis. (various references)

Old English450-1100

fracod, ful. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Vile

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 1, Verse 26
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintDia touto paredwken autouV o qeoV eiV paqh atimiaV ai te gar qhleiai autwn methllaxan thn fusikhn crhsin eiV thn para fusin
Latin405VulgatePropterea tradidit illos Deus in passiones ignominiae nam feminae eorum inmutaverunt naturalem usum in eum usum qui est contra naturam
Old English990West SaxonForðy ageaf God hie on scomfullum lustum. Efne hiera wif gehwurfon gecyndlice beæwnunga wið ungecyndlice.
Middle English1395WyclifAmen. Therfor God bitook hem in to passiouns of schenschipe. For the wymmen of hem chaungiden the kyndli vss in to that vss that is ayens kynde.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd lyke wyse also the men lefte the naturall vse of the woma and bret in their lustes one on another. And man with man wrought filthynes and receaved in them selves the rewarde of their erroure as it was accordinge.
Jacobean English1611King JamesFor this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Victorian English1833WebsterFor this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Basic English1964OgdenFor this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Vile

LanguageRomans Chapter 1, Verse 26
CebuanoTungod niining maong hinungdan, gitugyan sila sa Dios ngadto sa mga pangibog nga makauulaw. Ang ilang mga kababayen-an nanag-usab sa kagamitan nga tiunay sa ilang pagkababaye ngadto sa kagamitan nga supak sa kinaiya.
CroatianStoga ih je Bog predao sramotnim strastima: njihove žene zamijeniše naravno opæenje protunaravnim,
DanishDerfor gav Gud dem hen i vanærende Lidenskaber; thi både deres Kvinder ombyttede den naturlige Omgang med den unaturlige,
DutchDaarom heeft God hen overgegeven tot oneerlijke bewegingen; want ook hun vrouwen hebben het natuurlijk gebruik veranderd in het gebruik tegen nature;
FinnishSentähden Jumala on hyljännyt heidät häpeällisiin himoihin; sillä heidän naispuolensa ovat vaihtaneet luonnollisen yhteyden luonnonvastaiseen;
FrenchC`est pourquoi Dieu les a livrés des passions infâmes: car leurs femmes ont changé l`usage naturel en celui qui est contre nature;
GermanDarum hat sie auch Gott dahingegeben in schändliche Lüste: denn ihre Weiber haben verwandelt den natürlichen Brauch in den unnatürlichen;
HungarianAnnakokáért adta õket az Isten tisztátalan indulatokra; mert az õ asszonynépeik is elváltoztatták a természet folyását természetellenesre:
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKarena manusia berbuat yang demikian, maka Allah membiarkan mereka menuruti nafsu mereka yang hina. Wanita-wanita mereka tidak lagi tertarik kepada laki-laki seperti yang lazimnya pada manusia, melainkan tertarik kepada sesama wanita.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaItulah sebabnya Allah menyerahkan mereka itu kepada segala hawa nafsu yang keji, karena perempuannya mengubahkan adat yang lazim kepada adat yang bersalahan;
ItalianPer questo Dio li ha abbandonati a passioni infami; le loro donne hanno cambiato i rapporti naturali in rapporti contro natura.
MaoriKoia ratou i tukua ai e te Atua ki nga hiahia tutua: ko a ratou wahine hoki, mahue ake i a ratou te tikanga maori, kei te ngau ke noa atu:
NorwegianDerfor overgav Gud dem til skammelige lyster; for både deres kvinner forvendte den naturlige bruk til den unaturlige,
PortuguesePelo que Deus os entregou a paixões infames. Porque até as suas mulheres mudaram o uso natural no que é contrário natureza;   
RumanianDin pricina aceasta, Dumnezeu i -a lqsat kn voia unor patimi sckrboase; cqci femeile lor au schimbat kntrebuinyarea fireascq a lor kntr`una care este kmpotriva firii;
ShuarNuna Túrin ásarmatai Yus natsanmainia nuna wakeruktinian tsankatkarmiayi. Túramtai nuwasha aishmanjai tsanintinian nakitrar nuamtak yajauch awajnainiawai.
SwahiliKwa hiyo, Mungu amewaacha wafuate tamaa mbaya. Hata wanawake wanabadili matumizi yanayopatana na maumbile.
SwedishFördenskull gav Gud dem till pris åt skamliga lustar: deras kvinnor utbytte det naturliga umgänget mot ett onaturligt;
UmaJadi', apa' oja' -ra mpopue' -ie, toe pai' napelele' lau-ramo mpotuku' kahinaa nono-ra to me'eai' toe. Ntahawe' tobine-tobine uma-pi mogau' hewa gau' manusia' biasa. Himpau tobine moto-ramo momepotobine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vile

Derivations

Words beginning with "vile": vilely, vileness, vilenesses, viler, vilest. (additional references)

Words ending with "vile": revile, servile. (additional references)

Words containing "vile": anviled, bedeviled, caviled, caviler, cavilers, deviled, eviler, evilest, outcaviled, overprivileged, privilege, privileged, privileges, privileging, reviled, revilement, revilements, reviler, revilers, reviles, servilely, servileness, servilenesses, underprivileged, unprivileged, weeviled. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avilez, avili, cile, uile, vael, valde, valee, valel, valen, Valeo, valk, valle, vallen, valo, veale, veel, veile, veilo, veke, Velbe, velde, velf, velle, velo, velp, Velu, venle, verle, viae, vible, viee, viel, vife, vige, Vigee, vigle, vihl, vike, vil, Vilau, vilde, vileh, vilen, viles, vilet, vilg, vili, vilia, vilie, vilig, vilin, vilk, ville, villr, vilne, vilo, vilt, vilve, vime, vinle, vioe, vipe, vire, virle, visl, vite, vixe, vixle, vize, vizle, vlex, vli, volb, volde, voleh, volem, volex, volf, volk, Volke, volle, volli, volne, volp, volu, vple, vril, vuel, vula, vule, Vulg, vulle, vylt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vile"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "vile" (pronounced vī"l)
3v ī" lrevile.
2-ī" laisle, Argyll, awhile, beguile, bile, compile, file, guile, Heil, stile, style, Isle, mile, Phyle, pile, refile, restyle, rile, smile, tile, while, wile, worthwhile, Wyle.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Vile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: evil, live, veil.

Words within the letters "e-i-l-v"

-1 letter: lei, lev, lie, vie.

-2 letters: el, li.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-v"
 

+1 letter: alive, devil, ervil, evils, kevil, levin, lieve, lived, liven, liver, lives, livre, olive, veils, vexil, viler, voile.

 

+2 letters: alevin, alvine, belive, blivet, clevis, devils, drivel, eluvia, elvish, ervils, eviler, evilly, glaive, kelvin, kevils, levied, levier, levies, levins, levity, liever, lively, livens, livers, livery, livest, livier, livres, livyer, olives, pelvic, pelvis, relive, revile, silvae, silver, silvex, sliver, snivel, swivel, unlive, unveil, vagile, vailed, valine, valise, veiled, veiler, veinal, venial, verily, vexils, viable, vialed, vilely, vilest, villae, vineal, violet, virile, vittle, voiles, weevil.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Bible Trace
17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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