Word Meanings - VICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: VICIOUS

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. Syn. -- Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved. -- Vi"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VICIOUS)

• Abandoned
• Profligate
• wicked
• vicious
• unprincipled
• reprobate
• incorrigible
• sinful
• graceless
• demoralized
• dissolute
• depraved
• bad
• licentious
• corrupt
• Criminal
• Illegal
• felonious
• culpable
• wrong
• iniquitous
• immoral
• guilty
• nefarious
• flagitious
• Dissolute
• profligate
• loose
• wanton
• Graceless
• Ungraceful
• scampish
• abandoned
• worthless
• Gross
• Entire
• vulgar
• impure
• coarse
• bloated
• sensual
• animal
• bulk
• indelicate
• outrageous
• unseemly
• shameful

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VICIOUS)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to VICIOUS)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• 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
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• 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.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• 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.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• SENSUALISTIC
  1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
• INCORRIGIBLENESS
  Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• FELONIOUS
  Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• 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