vicious

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈvɪʃəs/

Definition of vicious

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Violent, destructive and cruel.
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adj

  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. (archaic)Pertaining 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.”

name

  1. A surname.

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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.

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