Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Evil by nature and in practice: "this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred” ( Winston S. Churchill).
- adj. Playfully malicious or mischievous: a wicked prank; a critic's wicked wit.
- adj. Severe and distressing: a wicked cough; a wicked gash; wicked driving conditions.
- adj. Highly offensive; obnoxious: a wicked stench.
- adj. Slang Strikingly good, effective, or skillful: a wicked curve ball; a wicked imitation.
- adv. Slang Used as an intensive: "a ... body suit, which she describes as wicked comfortable” ( Nathan Cobb).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Evil in principle or practice; deviating from the divine or the moral law; addicted to vice; depraved; vicious; sinful; immoral; bad; wrong; iniquitous: a word of comprehensive signification, including everything that is contrary to the moral law, and applied both to persons and to their acts: as, a wicked man; a wicked deed; wicked ways; wicked lives; a wicked heart; wicked designs; wicked works.
- Vile; baneful; pernicious; noxious.
- Troublesome; difficult; hard; painful; unfavorable; disagreeable.
- Mischievous; prone or disposed to mischief, often good-natured mischief; roguish: as, a wicked urchin.
- Synonyms Illegal, Immoral, etc. (see criminal), Heinous, Infamous, etc. (see atrocious), unrighteous, profane, ungodly, godless, impious, unprincipled, vile, abandoned, prolligate.
- n. A wicked person; one who is or those who are wicked.
- Quick; active.
Wiktionary
- adj. Evil or mischievous by nature.
- adj. slang Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
- adv. slang, New England, UK Very, extremely.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of wick.
- adj. Having a wick.
- adj. UK, dialect Infested with maggots.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition.
- adj. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things
- adj. obsolete Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
- adj. colloq. Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. morally bad in principle or practice
- adj. having committed unrighteous acts
- adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- adj. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- adj. naughtily or annoyingly playful
Etymologies
- See wick (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, alteration of wicke, ultimately from Old English wicca, sorcerer; see witch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Oh! she's a wicked woman, she is, a _wicked_ woman, a _very_ wicked woman; she's got some of my things because I'm behind-hand in my rent, and she says she won't give them up; but she _shall_.”
“I couldn't see what Brian had ever done to deserve such a fate as his, and I began to feel wicked, _wicked_.”
“Now you tread on dangerous ground, wicked one -- _wicked_!”
“When others are more wicked] Dr. Warburton would exchange the repeated epithet _wicked_ into _wrinkled_ in both places.”
“And the title wicked one can certainly be applied to the being who instituted oaths in his own name since Jesus Chr*stos says But let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No.”
“The word 'wicked', for example, could appear in three different Tweets with a different meaning each time.”
“Jeffs controls his followers by steering them away from the outside, what he calls a wicked and immoral world.”
“As shining light increases from twilight to noonday splendor, so the course of the just increases in purity, but that of the wicked is as thickest darkness, in which one knows not on what he stumbles.”
“If you were tempted by what you call wicked thoughts you would not nurse them.”
“Iniquity, regarded in the heart, will certainly spoil the comfort and success of prayer; for the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wicked’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
onslaught, slain, clove, clave, thrice, nincompoop, scorn, storm, scant, lurk, beneath, atop and 143 more...
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Dirty Deeds, Acts & Villainous Arcana
Villains, evildoers, and the wonderful words to describe them.
putsch, internecine, galère, stygian, infernal, opprobrium, anathema, bruit, scurrility, mulct, misanthropic, invective and 102 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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incandescent
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I am : evil
Adjectives that are very, very bad.
evil, wicked, diabolical, nasty, demonic, corrupt, depraved, nefarious, sinister, villainous, vile, reprobate and 18 more...
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Harmful
quick, hurtful, ruinous, noxious, destructive, deadly, mischievous, deleterious, baneful, injurious, baleful, malicious and 24 more...
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pusadolfo's list
wicked, sycophant, zephyr, callipygian, ubiquitous, superfluous, halcyon, conundrum, perspicacious, acute, virtuous, ludicrous and 7 more...
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Bi-sonics
Allophonic homographs. Words that are pronounced at least 2 ways, having different senses. 'august' and 'polish' are less ambiguous since capitalization make the correct pronunciation clear (at lea...
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serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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RocknRolla (2008)
Words from 2008 'RocknRolla' film.
drip, consent, foothold, bricks and mortar, mortar, councillor, let down, wand, clean out, leg-up, hasty, erect and 115 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (W)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
wail, waistcoat, wales, wallflower, wand, wandering, wanderlust, waning, ward, wardrobe, warp, wassail and 97 more...
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john New England slang for "great", often used to emphasize other superlatives, as in "wicked good."
Dec 30, 2007