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Definition: Vile |
VileAdjective1. 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) |
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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."
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VILE | English | VI Like EMACS | Computer - (Unix, VI, EMACS) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: VileSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Vile |
| English words defined with "vile": A whited sepulcher ♦ despicable, dirty, Doghole, Dungy ♦ filthy, foul ♦ Invile ♦ lousy ♦ nasty ♦ Offscouring ♦ Prostitutor ♦ Rakeshame ♦ Scabbed ♦ ugly, unworthy ♦ Vild, Viled, vilely, Villanize. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vile": Captain Abstraction ♦ Draught-house, Duchesne ♦ Hebertists ♦ Misnomers ♦ Naughty Figs ♦ Pere Duchene, Pickwickian ♦ Ramsbottom ♦ Wick, 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 274 | 17,727 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Vile | Last name | 130 | 59,346 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vile | 48 |
book of vile darkness | 7 |
john vile | 7 |
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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. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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 English | 450-1100 | fracod, ful. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dia touto paredwken autouV o qeoV eiV paqh atimiaV ai te gar qhleiai autwn methllaxan thn fusikhn crhsin eiV thn para fusin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Propterea tradidit illos Deus in passiones ignominiae nam feminae eorum inmutaverunt naturalem usum in eum usum qui est contra naturam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Forðy ageaf God hie on scomfullum lustum. Efne hiera wif gehwurfon gecyndlice beæwnunga wið ungecyndlice. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Amen. 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 English | 1526 | Tyndale | And 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 English | 1611 | King James | For 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 English | 1833 | Webster | For 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 English | 1964 | Ogden | For 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. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Tungod 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. |
| Croatian | Stoga ih je Bog predao sramotnim strastima: njihove žene zamijeniše naravno opæenje protunaravnim, |
| Danish | Derfor gav Gud dem hen i vanærende Lidenskaber; thi både deres Kvinder ombyttede den naturlige Omgang med den unaturlige, |
| Dutch | Daarom heeft God hen overgegeven tot oneerlijke bewegingen; want ook hun vrouwen hebben het natuurlijk gebruik veranderd in het gebruik tegen nature; |
| Finnish | Sentähden Jumala on hyljännyt heidät häpeällisiin himoihin; sillä heidän naispuolensa ovat vaihtaneet luonnollisen yhteyden luonnonvastaiseen; |
| French | C`est pourquoi Dieu les a livrés des passions infâmes: car leurs femmes ont changé l`usage naturel en celui qui est contre nature; |
| German | Darum hat sie auch Gott dahingegeben in schändliche Lüste: denn ihre Weiber haben verwandelt den natürlichen Brauch in den unnatürlichen; |
| Hungarian | Annakokáért adta õket az Isten tisztátalan indulatokra; mert az õ asszonynépeik is elváltoztatták a természet folyását természetellenesre: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Karena 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 Lama | Itulah sebabnya Allah menyerahkan mereka itu kepada segala hawa nafsu yang keji, karena perempuannya mengubahkan adat yang lazim kepada adat yang bersalahan; |
| Italian | Per questo Dio li ha abbandonati a passioni infami; le loro donne hanno cambiato i rapporti naturali in rapporti contro natura. |
| Maori | Koia 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: |
| Norwegian | Derfor overgav Gud dem til skammelige lyster; for både deres kvinner forvendte den naturlige bruk til den unaturlige, |
| Portuguese | Pelo que Deus os entregou a paixões infames. Porque até as suas mulheres mudaram o uso natural no que é contrário natureza; |
| Rumanian | Din 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; |
| Shuar | Nuna Túrin ásarmatai Yus natsanmainia nuna wakeruktinian tsankatkarmiayi. Túramtai nuwasha aishmanjai tsanintinian nakitrar nuamtak yajauch awajnainiawai. |
| Swahili | Kwa hiyo, Mungu amewaacha wafuate tamaa mbaya. Hata wanawake wanabadili matumizi yanayopatana na maumbile. |
| Swedish | Fördenskull gav Gud dem till pris åt skamliga lustar: deras kvinnor utbytte det naturliga umgänget mot ett onaturligt; |
| Uma | Jadi', 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. | |
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vile" (pronounced vī"l) |
| 3 | v ī" l | revile. |
| 2 | -ī" l | aisle, 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. | ||
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. | |
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