'Vicious' definitions:
Definition of 'vicious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]
adjective
Having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious]
adjective
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious]
adjective
Definition of 'Vicious'
From: GCIDE
- Vicious \Vi"cious\, a. [OF. vicious, F. vicieux, fr. L. vitiosus, fr. vitium vice. See Vice a fault.]
- 1. Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. [1913 Webster]
- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct. [1913 Webster]
- Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved. [1913 Webster] -- {Vi"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Vi"cious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vicious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abominable,
- acrimonious,
- amoral,
- animal,
- anthropophagous,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- base,
- beastly,
- bestial,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- cannibalistic,
- concentrated,
- contaminated,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupt,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- criminal,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- damaging,
- damnable,
- dark,
- deadly,
- defamatory,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- degrading,
- deleterious,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- depraved,
- desperate,
- despiteful,
- detrimental,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- diabolical,
- disadvantageous,
- disgraceful,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- Draconian,
- evil,
- execrable,
- exquisite,
- faulty,
- fearful,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferine,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- furious,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- hellish,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- immoral,
- improper,
- inaccurate,
- inauspicious,
- inexpedient,
- infamous,
- inferior,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- iniquitous,
- injurious,
- invalid,
- kill-crazy,
- knavish,
- lethal,
- low,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- merciless,
- mischievous,
- miscreant,
- monstrous,
- murderous,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- noncivilized,
- nonmoral,
- noxious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- ominous,
- opprobrious,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- pitiless,
- poisonous,
- poor,
- prejudicial,
- profligate,
- putrid,
- rancorous,
- rank,
- ravening,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- rotten,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- scandalous,
- scatheful,
- septic,
- severe,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- sharkish,
- sinful,
- sinister,
- slanderous,
- slavering,
- spiteful,
- steeped in vice,
- subhuman,
- tameless,
- Tartarean,
- terrible,
- toxic,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unfavorable,
- unforgivable,
- ungentle,
- unhealthy,
- unhuman,
- unkind,
- unmoral,
- unpardonable,
- unpleasant,
- unprincipled,
- unskillful,
- unsound,
- unspeakable,
- untamed,
- untoward,
- unworthy,
- vehement,
- venal,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vice-laden,
- vice-prone,
- vile,
- villainous,
- vindictive,
- violent,
- virulent,
- wicked,
- wild,
- wolfish,
- wrong