Wicked

  

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Wicked

Definition: Wicked

Wicked

Adjective

1. 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: Wicked

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Wicked

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Wicked

English words defined with "wicked": A sonBelial, black, Black-heartedCrimeful, Criminousdark, demon, Deperditely, Destructionist, Devil, devilish, devilishly, devilry, deviltry, disclosed, disgraceful, disgustful, disgusting, distastefulevillyFacinorous, Felonous, fiend, foul, foullyGehennaIll-lived, iniquitousLither, Litherly, loathly, loathsomemisbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, monster, Morgan le Fay, most evil, most wickednefarious, nefariousness, Nefastogrerepellant, repellent, repelling, revoltingSatanical, scandalous, Scelestic, scoundrel, severe, shameful, shocking, sinful, sinisterTantalus, Tartarus, terrible, The evil oneUnclean spirit, ungodly, Unpitiousvileness, villain, villainousWicke, wickedly, wickedness, Wikke, wretchyucky. (references)
Specialty definitions using "wicked": Artful DodgerDigestion, DonegildFRYINGHEAVEN, HELL HOUND, HELL-BORN BABEIfurin, IMMORALKORANlettuceman, Man of BelialOblivionPelatiahReconcilation, ROYSatan, sherifftariffUN, Un-, unctionWick, Wicked, Wicked Bible, Wicked Prayer Book, Wicked Weed, Witch, Wokey. (references)
Etymologies containing "wicked": Wikke. (references)

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Modern Usage: Wicked

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Wicked

DomainTitle

Books

  • White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892 (reference)

  • Wicked Forest (reference)

  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (reference)

  • The Wicked Trade (Sea Officer William Bentley Novels, No. 2) (reference)

  • Starman: A Wicked Inclination (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Wicked

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Wicked

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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.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Wicked
 

"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."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Wicked".

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

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Familiar Quotations: Wicked

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Wicked

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Wicked

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Wicked

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Wicked

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1,0956,896

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

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Derived & Related Names: Wicked

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wicked".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AvimN/ABiblical

Wicked or perverse men

AvithN/ABiblical

Wicked

BelialN/ABiblical

Wicked

HivitesN/ABiblical

Wicked

IkkeshN/ABiblical

Wicked

TahreaN/ABiblical

Wicked contention

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Wicked

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.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "wicked": wicked-edged, wicked-looking, wicked-stepmother.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wicked

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

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Modern Translation: Wicked

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), (bad, evil), (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, (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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Wicked

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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)

Avestan200-600

dregvañtem, aka. (various references)

Old English450-1100

fracod. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Wicked

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 29, Verse 12
Latin405VulgatePrinceps qui libenter audit verba mendacii omnes ministros habebit impios
Middle English1395WyclifA prince that gladli hereth the wrdis of lesing; alle the mynystris hath vnpitouse.
Jacobean English1611King JamesIf a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Victorian English1833WebsterIf a ruler hearkeneth to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Basic English1964OgdenIf a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Wicked

LanguageProverbs 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 。
CroatianAko vladalac posluša rijeè lažljivu, sve mu sluge postaju opake.
DanishEn Fyrste, som lytter til Løgnetale, får lufter gudløse Tjenere.
DutchEen heerser, die op leugentaal acht geeft, al zijn dienaars zijn goddeloos.
FinnishHallitsija, joka kuuntelee valhepuheita, saa palvelijoikseen pelkkiä jumalattomia.
FrenchQuand celui qui domine a égard aux paroles mensongères, Tous ses serviteurs sont des méchants.
GermanEin 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-hariJika penguasa memperhatikan berita dusta, pegawainya akan menjadi jahat semua.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaJikalau seorang penghulu mengindahkan bohong, niscaya segala rakyatnya menjadi jahatlah kelak.
ItalianSe 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.
NorwegianNår en hersker akter på løgnens ord, blir alle hans tjenere ugudelige.
PortugueseO governador que dá atenção às palavras mentirosas achará que todos os seus servos são ímpios.   
RumanianCknd celce stqpknewte dq ascultare cuvintelor mincinoase, toyi slujitorii lui sknt niwte rqi. -
RussianеУМЙ РТБЧЙФЕМШ УМХЫБЕФ МПЦОЩЕ ТЕЮЙ, ФП Й ЧУЕ УМХЦБЭЙЕ Х ОЕЗП ОЕЮЕУФЙЧЩ.
SpanishSi el gobernante atiende a palabras mentirosas, todos sus servidores serán unos impíos.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Wicked

Derivations

Words beginning with "wicked": wickeder, wickedest, wickedly, wickedness, wickednesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Wicked"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "wicked" (pronounced wi"kud)
3-k u dcrooked, naked, orchid.

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

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Anagrams: Wicked

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.

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. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Derived from
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Bible Trace
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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