VICIOUS

poisonous, venomous, vicious

(adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; “poisonous hate”; “venomous criticism”; “vicious gossip”

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

(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”

condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, 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”

evil, vicious

(adjective) having the nature of vice

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

vicious (comparative viciouser or more vicious, superlative viciousest or most vicious)

Violent, destructive and cruel.

Savage and aggressive.

(archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

Synonyms

• scathy

Etymology

Proper noun

Vicious

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

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Vi"cious, a. Etym: [OF. vicious, F. vicieux, fr. L. vitiosus, fr. vitium vice. See Vice a fault.]

1. Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. Shak. The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. Burke. A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. De Quincey.

2. Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct. Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race. Milton.

3. Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc. Dryden.

4. Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.

5. Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

6. Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.]

Syn.

– Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved.

– Vi"cious*ly, adv.

– Vi"cious*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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