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WICKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
Example:
a wicked cough
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Example:
a wicked stench
Synonyms:
disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Derivation:
wickedness (the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having committed unrighteous acts
Example:
a sinful person
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Adjectives
Similar:
unrighteous (not righteous)
Derivation:
wickedness (estrangement from god)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Naughtily or annoyingly playful
Example:
a wicked prank
Synonyms:
arch; impish; implike; mischievous; pixilated; prankish; puckish; wicked
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
playful (full of fun and high spirits)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Morally bad in principle or practice
Classified under:
Adjectives
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wick
Context examples:
Your wicked project upon her peace turns out a clever thought indeed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You have proved your heart less wicked, much less wicked.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
We thought him very wicked then, but, looking back, I am not sure that we were not very wicked ourselves.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You have at least the satisfaction of knowing that for thirty years of his life his conscience bitterly reproached him for this wicked deed.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where the wicked cease from troubling.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
What brought all his wicked scheme to wreck was your discovery of this man Heidegger’s dead body.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
