vicious
adjectivecommon in dialogue
- //ˈvɪʃəs//
Violent, destructive and cruel.
adjective
- 1
Violent, destructive and cruel.
- 2
Savage and aggressive.
He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
- 3
archaicPertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof
A murrain on you, Reverend Apse/I hope you get caught in a vicious moral lapse.
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous.
Forms
- comparative
- more vicious, viciouser
- superlative
- most vicious, viciousest
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