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WICKED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wicked mean?
• WICKED (adjective)
The adjective WICKED has 5 senses:
1. morally bad in principle or practice
2. having committed unrighteous acts
3. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
4. naughtily or annoyingly playful
5. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Familiarity information: WICKED used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: wickedest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Morally bad in principle or practice
Similar:
evil; vicious (having the nature of vice)
heavy ((of an actor or role) being or playing the villain)
flagitious; heinous (extremely wicked, deeply criminal)
iniquitous; sinful; ungodly (characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin)
irreclaimable; irredeemable; unredeemable; unreformable (insusceptible of reform)
nefarious; villainous (extremely wicked)
peccable; peccant (liable to sin)
Also:
evil (morally bad or wrong)
immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)
impious (lacking piety or reverence for a god)
wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)
unrighteous (not righteous)
Antonym:
virtuous (morally excellent)
Derivation:
wickedness (morally objectionable behavior)
wickedness (the quality of being wicked)
wickedness (absence of moral or spiritual values)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having committed unrighteous acts
Synonyms:
Context example:
a sinful person
Similar:
unrighteous (not righteous)
Derivation:
wickedness (estrangement from god)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
Synonyms:
Context example:
a wicked cough
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Naughtily or annoyingly playful
Synonyms:
arch; impish; implike; mischievous; pixilated; prankish; puckish; wicked
Context example:
a wicked prank
Similar:
playful (full of fun and high spirits)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Synonyms:
disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky
Context example:
a wicked stench
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Derivation:
wickedness (the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions)
Context examples
I am too wicked to write about myself!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Next day the soldier was tried, and though he had done nothing wicked, the judge condemned him to death.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It would not be wicked to love me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You look a little wicked now.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"You are a wicked creature!" cried Dorothy. "You have no right to take my shoe from me."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Ah, me! it’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wicked men though they be, they are certainly very much afraid of him.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world; and everybody began to find out that they had always distrusted the appearance of his goodness.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It did not seem to him from what he could see of it to be such a very wicked place after all.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lip-lip continued so to darken his days that White Fang became wickeder and more ferocious than it was his natural right to be.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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