Word Meanings - HEINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton. Syn.

Additional info about word: HEINOUS

Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton. Syn. -- Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious. -- Hei"nous*ly, adv. -- Hei"nous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEINOUS)

• Atrocious
• Monstrous
• nefarious
• wicked
• outrageous
• villainous
• enormous
• shameful
• heinous
• cruel
• flagrant
• facinorous
• flagitious
• Flagitious
• Facinorous
• atrocious
• monstrous
• disgraceful
• scandalous
• aggravated
• Hateful
• Abominable
• detestable
• vile
• odious
• execrable
• loathsome
• repulsive
• Wicked
• Evil
• bad
• godless
• sinful
• immoral
• iniquitous
• criminal
• unjust
• unrighteous
• irreligious
• profane
• ungodly
• vicious
• black
• dark
• foul
• unhallowed
• naughty
• abandoned
• corrupt

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HEINOUS)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to HEINOUS)

• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• ABOMINABLENESS
  The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• AGGRAVATING
  1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ABOMINABLE
  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time ,
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• SCANDALOUSLY
  1. In a manner to give offense; shamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift. 2. With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• UNHALLOWED
  Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.
• FACINOROUS
  Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n.
• BLACK-JACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• BLACK LEAD
  Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• ENORMOUSLY
  In an enormous degree.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• BAILIWICK
  The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.