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Definition: Wicked |
WickedAdjective1. Morally bad in principle or practice. 2. Having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person". 3. Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough". 4. Morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds". 5. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wicked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: WickedSynonyms: disgustful (adj), disgusting (adj), distasteful (adj), evil (adj), foul (adj), loathly (adj), loathsome (adj), repellant (adj), repellent (adj), repelling (adj), revolting (adj), severe (adj), sinful (adj), terrible (adj), unholy (adj), yucky (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: good (adj), virtuous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Noun: bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer; sinner; the wicked; bad example. |
Impiety | The wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness. |
Improbity | Adjective: dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent; knavish; disgraceful; (disreputable); wicked. |
Satan | The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon. |
Vice | Adjective: vicious; sinful; sinning;Verb: wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous, undutiful. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Wicked Witch of the West was the bad one. (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) My boy's wicked smart (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) Revenge may be wicked. But it's natural (Vanity Fair; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray) Daddy says dice are wicked. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) For each time he falls, he shall rise again, and woe to the wicked! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) | |
Lyrics | What a wicked game you play (Wicked Game; performing artist: Chris Isaak) You've changed your wicked ways (I Heard a Rumour; performing artist: Bananarama) When the wicked (Rivers Of Babylon; performing artist: Boney M) Didn't hear your wicked words every day (Karma Chameleon; performing artist: Culture Club) The wicked lies we tell (The Space Between; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) | |
Tongue Twisters | Which rich wicked witch wished the wicked wish? (references; author: unknown) Which witch wished which wicked wish? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wicked (1991) The Wicked City (1973) Wicked Wicked (1973) The Wicked Die Slow (1968) Wicked as They Come (1956) | |
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![]() | We go to the wicked city. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | An impossible adventure : the wicked flea. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | When the wicked cease from troubling --. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The hopes of the party, prior to July 14th "from such wicked crown & anchor-dreams, good Lord deliver us". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Chucky" by Rene Cerney Commentary: "Chucky from the movie Childs Play. This one is actually my fathers, i left mine in the back window of my car over the summer and his face turned wicked black like he was on fire." |
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| Wicked laugh. | |
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Aristotle | Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. |
Confucius | To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. |
Horace | You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. |
John Donne | Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. |
Jonathan Swift | I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. |
Joseph De Maistre | Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. |
Marquis De Vauvenargues | Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. |
Miguel de Cervantes | God bears with the wicked, but not forever. |
Seneca | The sun also shines on the wicked. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject: for no man or society of men, having a power to deliver up their preservation, or consequently the means of it, to the absolute will and arbitrary dominion of another; when ever any one shall go about to bring them into such a slavish condition, they will always have a right to preserve, what they have not a power to part with; and to rid themselves of those, who invade this fundamental, sacred, and unalterable law of self-preservation, for which they entered into society. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | When the designs of wicked men or the aggressive urge of mighty States dissolve over large areas the frame of civilized society, humble folk are confronted with difficulties with which they cannot cope. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They were right in telling you that Jean Valjean was a wicked wretch |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He would reward the good and punish the wicked. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Then, God grant me to Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead -- a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia. |
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| "Wicked" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wicked" is used about 1,095 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% | 1,095 | 6,896 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wicked". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Avim | N/A | Biblical | Wicked or perverse men |
| Avith | N/A | Biblical | Wicked |
| Belial | N/A | Biblical | Wicked |
| Hivites | N/A | Biblical | Wicked |
| Ikkesh | N/A | Biblical | Wicked |
| Tahrea | N/A | Biblical | Wicked contention |
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Expressions using "wicked": become wicked ♦ make wicked ♦ most wicked ♦ revert to wicked ways ♦ the wicked ♦ the wicked one ♦ wicked action ♦ wicked deed ♦ wicked person ♦ wicked thing ♦ wicked woman. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "wicked": wicked-edged, wicked-looking, wicked-stepmother. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wicked weasel | 5,539 | gals wicked | 58 |
wicked | 924 | wicked witch | 58 |
bikini weasel wicked | 480 | francisco san wicked | 57 |
wicked temptation | 315 | wicked weasel swim wear | 53 |
wicked picture | 271 | worth wicked | 52 |
wicked game | 254 | picture weasel wicked | 52 |
musical wicked | 233 | b b b b land metal music wicked | 51 |
mature wicked | 200 | crow prayer wicked | 50 |
bikini wicked | 169 | wanda wicked | 50 |
pic weasel wicked | 141 | moon wicked | 49 |
weasle wicked | 114 | wicked woman | 48 |
girl weasel wicked | 77 | wicked city | 45 |
wicked video | 75 | wicked lady | 43 |
bikini picture weasel wicked | 72 | weasal wicked | 41 |
photo weasel wicked | 71 | gallery weasel wicked | 40 |
something wicked this way comes | 67 | broadway wicked | 37 |
weasel.com wicked | 64 | jester wicked | 37 |
wicked witch of the west | 63 | mind wicked | 37 |
game lyrics wicked | 61 | divine wicked | 35 |
girl wicked | 59 | wicked movie | 34 |
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| Language | Translations for "wicked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mistrec (captious, flip, mischief), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang), i lig (bad, basilisk, catty, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, felon, godless, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, nefarious, perverse, sinister, spiteful, vicious), 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, vile). (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, vicious, void, wrong), كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome), ملعون (abominable, accursed, cursed, damn, damned, detestable, evil, execrable, god-damn, stupid), مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, worrisome), مؤذ (annoying, bad, baleful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malign, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, unwholesome, verminous), هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wide), لعين (abominable, accursed, bloody, cursed, damned, evil, execrable), لا يجارى (swept), طالح (evil, vicious), خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, virulent, vulpine, wily), 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, vicious). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страшен (alarming, almighty, apocalyptic, awesome, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, horrible, redoubtable, scary, terrible, terrific, tremendous), кокетен (neat), грешен (fallacious, iniquitous, peccant, sinful, unhallowed, unrighteous, wrong), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous), отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, slick, spanking, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wizard), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary), 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, vicious, waspish), злонамерен (evil-minded, malicious, mischievous, snide), лукав (astute, crafty, designing, feline, furtive, guileful, parlous, pawky, serpentine, sly, snaky, subtle, tricky, underhand, wily), 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, vicious, wrong), болезнен (afflictive, diseased, morbid, painful, peccant, sick, sore, torturous, unsound), безбожен (godless, irreligious, outrageous, unchristian, ungodly, unholy), проклет (accursed, accurst, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed), порочен (impure, iniquitous, poisonous, unregenerated, vicious), пакостен (elvish, harmful, maleficent, mischievous, noisome, noxious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 邪惡 (evil, sinister, vicious), 邪恶 (Depravation, Depravity, menacing), 歹 (bad, evil), 刁 (artful). (various references) | |
Czech | zlý (bad, dirty, evil, evil-minded, ferocious, maleficent, malign, mean, niddering, rank, severe, unholy, vicious), zkažený (bad, corrupt, debauched, decayed, high, perverted, putrid, rotten, ruined, spoilt, stale), podlý (base, contemptible, currish, ignoble, lowdown, mean, shabby, sordid, ugly, villainous), hříšný (sinful), bezbožný (godless, impious, ungodly, unholy), špatný (bad, black, defective, evil, faulty, ill, improper, inferior, low, poor, weak, worthless, wrong). (various references) | |
Farsi | نابکار (Nefarious), گناهکار (Criminal, Guilty, Sinful, Sinner, Unregenerate(Ed), Unrighteous), تبه کار (Untoward, Villain), شریر (Bad, Heinous, Infernal, Naughty, Nefarious, Vicious, Villain, Villainous, Viper), بدکار (Bad, Evildoer, Nefarious, Rakish, Vicious), بدخو (Bad, Cranky), بدجنسس . (various references) | |
Finnish | pahantapainen (ill-mannered), pahanilkinen (malicious, spiteful), paha (bad, evil, naughty, serious, severe), jumalaton (godless, irreligious, ungodly), ilkeä (bad, evil, loathsome, malicious, mischievous, nasty, naughty, vicious), huono (bad, poor, rotten, ugly, wretched). (various references) | |
French | malicieux, chicaneur, cruel, ennuyeux, excellent, formidable, inestimable, inique, acerbe, malfaisant, violent (wild), mauvais, rétif, subtil, super, torve, vicieux, vilain, méchant. (various references) | |
German | schlimm (awful, bad, bad (worse, badly, evil, fatal, fatally, foully, grievous, ill, nastily, nasty, naughty, sad, serious, severe, sore, sorely, terrible, ugly, wickedly), boshaft (catty, fiendish, impish, invidious, malevolent, malicious, maliciously, mischievous, mischievously, nasty, poisonous, shrewish, spiteful, spitefully, vicious), böse (angry, bad, baddie, baleful, balefully, black, black-hearted, cross, crossly, dark, evil, evil person, ferocious, harm, mad, malign, miserable, nastily, nasty, naughty, poor, sinister, sore, unholy, venomous, vicious, villain, villainous, wicked person). (various references) | |
Greek | κακόσ (awful, bad, evil, ill, maleficent, mischievous, naughty, sinistrous, spiteful, vicious), κακός (bad, evil), κακοήθησ (malicious, nasty, vile), σατανικός (devilish, evil), φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, pervert, reprobate, scoundrelly, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villain, villainous, wanton), αισχρόσ (bawdy, disgraceful, ignominious, nefarious, obscene, outrageous, salacious, shameful, shocking, smutty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרושע (diabolic, evil, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, sinister, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous), עויל (boy, villain, youngster), זדוני (baleful, malicious, mischievous, willful), זד (insolent, scoundrel, villain, wanton), חנף (flatterer, hypocrite, sinner), בן בליעל (rascal, rogue, scoundrel, villain), רשע (evil, evildoing, harm, iniquity, malignant, unholy, wrong), רע (bad, evil, harm, inferior, maleficence, noxious, repugnant, trouble, unkind, wickedness, woe, wrong), נך (scoundrel), נבל (bastard, black sheep, bounder, mean, rascal, scoundrel, varlet, villain). (various references) | |
Hungarian | komisz (cussed, nasty, ornery, shabby, villainous), gonosz (bad, black, black-hearted, catty, evil, fell, felon, felonious, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nefarious, rancorous, shabby, shrewd, spiteful, ungodly, vicious, viperous), csintalan (mischievous, naughty, perky, puckish, shrewd), bûnös (criminal, culpable, culprit, delinquent, found guilty, guilty, miscreant, offender, peccant, sinful, sinner, vicious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | nakal (elfish, impish, mischievous, naughty, puckish, pucklike), keras (crusty, hard, heady, keen, killing, loud, rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, tang), jahat (demonic, devilish, maleficent, mean, sinister, unrighteous, villainous), durjana (evil). (various references) | |
Italian | malvagio (black-hearted, evil, nefarious, vicious, villainous), cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, evil, foul, frolic, frolicsome, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, miserable, nasty, naughty, perverse, petulant, poor, spiteful, unkind, vicious). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 邪悪 (evil). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねいかん (perverse, treacherous), むどう (unreasonable), よこしま (evil), じゃあく (evil). (various references) | |
Korean | 사악한. (various references) | |
Manx | olkyssagh (baleful, elfish, evilly-disposed, iniquitous, malicious, malignant, mischief-maker, mischievous, naughty, vicious), olk (bad, bad-hearted, bad-looking, evil, ill, injury, lousy, mischief, morally wrong, naughtiness, truculence, unfavourable, vice, vicious), drogh (abusive, bad, badness, evil, misfortune, unenviable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickedway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vingativo (avengeful, rancorous, resentful, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful, vicious, vindictive), rancoroso (rancorous, resentful, spiteful, venomous, vicious, vindictive), perverso (cantankerous, damnable, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill-conditioned, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, perverse, sinful, unjust, unnatural, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villainous, viperous), malvado (bad, black-hearted, candle-wick, evil, felon, felonious, flagitious, heavy, ill-conditioned, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, mischievous, nasty, nefarious, perverse, reprobate, scoundrelly, vicious, villain, wrong), malévolo (candle-wick, cattish, maleficent, nasty, spiteful), imoral (drossy, filthy, gay, immoral, impure, obscene, profligate, vicious, wasteful), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, squint-eyed, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wolfish), com torcida. (various references) | |
Romanian | negru (black, blackened, Brown, coon, dark, dirtiness, dirty, foul, ghost writer, grimy, hidden, jim crow, negro, penny-a-liner, sable, sun-burnt, swarthy, tawny), abraş (vicious), avan (awful, awfully, cruel), blestemat (accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, damned, darn, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, rascally, shabby, terrible, villainous), câinos (cruel, hard-hearted, heinous), condamnabil (blamable, blameful, blameworthy, chargeable, condemnable, culpable, damnable, damnably, damnatory, detestable, impeachable, imputable, indictable, reprehensible), hain (averse, cruel, hostile, vicious), hapsân (cruel, fierce, grabbing, greedy), înrãit (confirmed, double-dyed, hopeless, ingrained, inveterate), nedrept (foully, iniquitous, injurious, inofficious, perverse, undue, unfair, unjust, unlawful, wrong, wrongful), vitreg (cruel, cruelly), nelegiuit (iniquitous, scoundrel, unlawful, villainous), pãcãtos (faulty, flagitious, godless, guilty, nefarious, Peccable, sinful, sinner, trespasser), pervers (graceless, obliquitous, perversely, perverted, vicious), 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, vile, wretched, wrong), rãutãcios (catty, elfish, jeering, jeeringly, malicious, malignant, mischievous, spiteful, vicious), scelerat (scoundrel, vile, villain, villainous, wretch), urâcios (disagreeable, disgusting, grumpy, hideous, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly, vicious, villainous), 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, vicious, villainous), imoral (corrupt, gay, immoral, impure, lecherous, licentious, loose, nasty, outrageous, scrofulous, sinful). (various references) | |
Russian | свирепый (ferocious, fierce, furious, savage, truculent), грешный (erring, peccable, sinful, unhallowed), безнравственный (immoral, reprobate, unmoral, unprincipled), плохой (bad, miserable, nasty, poor, punk, ropey, third rate, third-rate). (various references) | |
Scottish | olc (bad, evil, mischief, miserable, nasty, poor, wickedness), daoi (evil one, wicked man), daobhaidh, cuirpidh, coirbte (perverse), aingidh (impious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zao (bad, evil, goblin, ill, ill disposed, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, mean, nefarious, ornery), rđav (bad, ill, miserable, naught, naughty, punk, rotten, unimprovable), poročan (graceless, unchaste, unhallowed, vicious), opak (blackhearted, evil, malefic, malignant, nefarious, perishing, pernicious, severe, ugly), nevaljao (arch, naughty, rogue, roguish, unkind, unrighteous). (various references) | |
Spanish | malicioso (arch, cattish, catty, ill natured, insidious, invidious, knowing, malicious, mean, mischievous, puckish, roguish, sly), cruel (bad, barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, flint hearted, grievous, hard, harsh, heartless, inhuman, murderous, oppressive, pitiless, ruthless, savage, unkind, vicious), de puta madre, 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, vile), horroroso (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, nasty), inicuo (iniquitous, nefarious, wrong), bellaco (cunning, deceitful, knave, miscreant), malísimo (dismal, dreadful, ghastly, grim, lousy, moldy, mouldy, pathetic, pathetical, poisonous, putrid, rotten, sad, tacky), terroroso, malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, bum, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, miserable, mistaken, nasty, naughty, ornery, poor, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, unsound, villain, wretched, wrong), malvado (evil, flagitious, no good, tacky, tough, villain), muy mordaz, muy vivo (lively), perverso (abandoned, debauched, evil, perverse, perverted, unnatural, vicious), terrible (awful, devastating, dire, dirty, dread, dreadful, eerie, evil, fearful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, jolly, lousy, lurid, outrageous, splitting, terrible, terror, unholy), malandrín (scoundrel). (various references) | |
Swedish | syndig (peccant, sinful, unrighteous), stygg (bad, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor), ond (angry, bad, black, cross, dark, evel, evil, ill, ill-conditioned, lame, mad, miserable, nasty, poor, wroth), ogudaktig (godless, impious, ungodly), elak (angry, bad, blackhearted, cantankerous, cattish, catty, caustic, dark, evel, evil, horrid, ill, ill natured, malicious, malignant, mean, nasty, naughty, troublesome, ugly, unkind, venomous). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, non-effective, obstreperous, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable), muzip (buffoon, hoaxer, prankish, puckish, quizzical, rogue, sly, teasing, tormenting, tricksy, waggish), kötücül (cankered, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, unholy), kötü huylu (bad tempered, cankered, ill bred, ill disposed, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-affected, ill-humored, ill-humoured, of bad character, perverse), 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, vicious, worse, wrongful), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous), hınzır (misery), günahkâr (erring, evil, evil doer, fallen, guilty, reprobate, sacrilegious, sinful, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, ungodly, unrighteous, wrongdoer), fena (angrily, bad, badly, evil, foul, ill, malicious, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly, sinful, sinister, unholy, vicious), 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, vicious, wanton), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wormy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юum. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грішний (errant, peccant, sinful, vile), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot), нечестивці, нечестивий (castaway, godless, impious, irreligious, nefarious, profane, reprobate, unholy, unrighteous), небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, insecure, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent), недобрий (alien, naughty, unkind), злобний (nasty, nocuous, rancorous, sardonian, sardonic, sardonical, spiteful, spleenful), злий (bad, bad tempered, bitter, blackhearted, carping, evil, ill, ill natured, puckish, snappish, snotty, vicious), лютий (angry, diabolic, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fierce, out and out, rampant, savage, truculent), лукавий (ambidextrous, arch, canny, crafty, hollow-hearted, wily), порочний (cammed, dark, depraved, gallows, naughty, perverse, rampant, vicious). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xấu (baleful, deplorable, evil, ill-favoured, ill-looking, punk, shabby, sorry, ugly, unbeautiful, unpleasant, wrong), tội lỗi ác, tệ, hư (bogus, diseased, naughty, shabby, untoward), đồi bại (diseased). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgeler (atrocious, infamous, villainous), trwch (broken, unfortunate), pechadurus (sinful), drygionus (bad), drwg (bad, evil, frolic, frolicsome, harm, hurt, miserable, nasty, naughty, petulant, poor), anwir (false, lying, untrue), anfad (atrocious, nefarious). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facinorosissimus, facinorosus, improbus, mala, malae, malam, malas, maleficus, mali, malignantes, malignantibus, malignantium, malignus, malis, malitiosus, malo, malorum, malos, malum, malumque, malus, malus peior pessimus, nefandorum, nefandos, nefarius, nocens, peior, peiora, peius, pessima, pessimae, pessimam, pessimarum, pessimas, pessime, pessimi, pessimis, pessimo, pessimorum, pessimos, pessimum, pessimus, pravus, profanus, scelerate, sceleratiora, sceleratis, sceleratius, sceleste, scelesti, scelestis, scelestius, scelestos, scelestum, scelestus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | dregvañtem, aka. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fracod. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 12 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Princeps qui libenter audit verba mendacii omnes ministros habebit impios |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A prince that gladli hereth the wrdis of lesing; alle the mynystris hath vnpitouse. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If a ruler hearkeneth to lies, all his servants are wicked. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Kong ang usa ka punoan maminaw sa kabakakan, Ang tanan niyang mga alagad lonlon mga dautan. |
| Chinese | 君 王 若 聽 謊 言 、 他 一 切 臣 僕 都 是 奸 惡 。 |
| Croatian | Ako vladalac posluša rijeè lažljivu, sve mu sluge postaju opake. |
| Danish | En Fyrste, som lytter til Løgnetale, får lufter gudløse Tjenere. |
| Dutch | Een heerser, die op leugentaal acht geeft, al zijn dienaars zijn goddeloos. |
| Finnish | Hallitsija, joka kuuntelee valhepuheita, saa palvelijoikseen pelkkiä jumalattomia. |
| French | Quand celui qui domine a égard aux paroles mensongères, Tous ses serviteurs sont des méchants. |
| German | Ein Herr, der zu Lügen Lust hat, des Diener sind alle gottlos. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè yon chèf renmen tripotay, se mechan ase k'ap sèvi avè l'. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jika penguasa memperhatikan berita dusta, pegawainya akan menjadi jahat semua. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jikalau seorang penghulu mengindahkan bohong, niscaya segala rakyatnya menjadi jahatlah kelak. |
| Italian | Se un principe dà ascolto alle menzogne, tutti i suoi ministri sono malvagi. |
| Maori | ¶ Ki te whakarongo te rangatira ki te teka, he kino katoa ana tangata. |
| Norwegian | Når en hersker akter på løgnens ord, blir alle hans tjenere ugudelige. |
| Portuguese | O governador que dá atenção às palavras mentirosas achará que todos os seus servos são ímpios. |
| Rumanian | Cknd celce stqpknewte dq ascultare cuvintelor mincinoase, toyi slujitorii lui sknt niwte rqi. - |
| Russian | еУМЙ РТБЧЙФЕМШ УМХЫБЕФ МПЦОЩЕ ТЕЮЙ, ФП Й ЧУЕ УМХЦБЭЙЕ Х ОЕЗП ОЕЮЕУФЙЧЩ. |
| Spanish | Si el gobernante atiende a palabras mentirosas, todos sus servidores serán unos impíos. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wicked": wickeder, wickedest, wickedly, wickedness, wickednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Wicked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wacked, wicce, wiced, wicjed, wicka, wickem, wicken, wicki, wieked, wikked, wikken, wiscked, wisked, wocke, wricked, Zwickau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wicked" (pronounced wi"kud) |
| 3 | -k u d | crooked, naked, orchid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-k-w" | |
-2 letters: cedi, deck, dice, dick, dike, iced, wick, wide. | |
-3 letters: dew, die, ice, ick, kid, wed. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, id, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-k-w" | |
+1 letter: wricked. | |
+2 letters: wickeder, wickedly. | |
+3 letters: chickweed, stickweed, whickered, wickedest. | |
+4 letters: candlewick, chickweeds, stickweeds, wickedness. | |
+5 letters: candlewicks, shipwrecked, trickledown, wisecracked. | |
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