Synonyms of the word vicious


VICIOUSBARBAROUS - BRUTAL - CONDEMNABLE - CRIMINAL - CRUEL - DEPLORABLE - EVIL - FELL - INHUMANE - MALICIOUS - POISONOUS - REPREHENSIBLE - ROUGHSHOD - SAVAGE - VENOMOUS - WICKED - WRONG

vicious

  • adj. Violent, destructive and cruel.
  • adj. Savage and aggressive.
  • adj. (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

barbarous

  • adj. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
  • adj. uncivilized, uncultured.
  • adj. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

brutal

  • adj. Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.
  • adj. Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
  • adj. Harsh; unrelenting.
  • adj. Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
  • adj. (music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.

condemnable

  • adj. Deserving of condemnation.

criminal

  • adj. Being against the law; forbidden by law.
  • adj. Guilty of breaking the law.
  • adj. Of or relating to crime or penal law.
  • adj. (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
  • n. A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

cruel

  • adj. Not nice; mean; heartless.
  • adj. (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
  • v. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success).
  • v. (Australia) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

deplorable

  • adj. Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
  • adj. Lamentable, to be felt sorrow for, worthy of compassion.
  • n. A person or thing that is to be deplored.

evil

  • adj. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  • adj. Morally corrupt.
  • adj. Unpleasant, as in 'an evil smell'.
  • adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  • adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
  • adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
  • n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
  • n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes…
  • n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

fell

  • v. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
  • v. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
  • v. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
  • n. A cutting-down of timber.
  • n. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat,…
  • n. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
  • n. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
  • n. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
  • n. (archaic outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
  • n. (archaic outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
  • adj. Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
  • adj. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
  • adv. Sharply; fiercely.
  • n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
  • n. (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

inhumane

  • adj. lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.

malicious

  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite.
  • adj. spiteful and deliberately harmful.

poisonous

  • adj. Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous.
  • adj. (of an animal) Inedible due to containing poison; poisonous to eat.

reprehensible

  • adj. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
  • adj. Deserving of reprehension.
  • n. A reprehensible person; a villain.

roughshod

  • adj. (farriery) Of a horse: having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent…
  • adj. (by extension) Brutal or domineering.

savage

  • adj. Wild; not cultivated.
  • adj. Barbaric; not civilized.
  • adj. Fierce and ferocious.
  • adj. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
  • n. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
  • n. (figuratively) A defiant person.
  • v. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
  • v. (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
  • v. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.

venomous

  • adj. Full of venom.
  • adj. Toxic; poisonous.
  • adj. Noxious; evil.
  • adj. Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
  • adj. Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating…
  • adj. powerful.

wicked

  • adj. Evil or mischievous by nature.
  • adj. (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
  • adv. (slang, New England, Britain) Very, extremely.
  • n. (usually humorous) People who are wicked.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wick.
  • adj. Having a wick.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

wrong

  • adj. Incorrect or untrue.
  • adj. Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
  • adj. Immoral, not good, bad.
  • adj. Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
  • adj. Not working; out of order.
  • adj. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
  • adj. (obsolete) Twisted; wry.
  • adv. (informal) In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
  • n. Something that is immoral or not good.
  • n. An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
  • n. The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
  • n. The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
  • v. To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
  • v. To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
  • v. To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.

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