Vicious

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 195:
 * We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
 * 1) Evil, immoral or depraved.
 * 2) Violent, destructive and cruel.
 * 3) Savage and aggressive.

Related terms

 * vice
 * vitiate

Adverbs for Vicious
notoriously; famously; incomparably; alarmingly; criminally; heinously; nefariously; brutally; incredibly; indescribably; incomparably; wholly; politically; obviously; deplorably; manifestly; terribly; basely; grossly; obscenely; morally; notably; indefensibly; dangerously; intolerably.

Thesaurus
Draconian, Tartarean, abominable, acrimonious, amoral, animal, anthropophagous, arrant, atrocious, bad, baleful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, bestial, bitchy, bitter, black, blamable, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, concentrated, contaminated, corroding, corrosive, corrupt, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, criminal, cruel, cruel-hearted, damaging, damnable, dark, deadly, defamatory, degenerate, degraded, degrading, deleterious, demoniac, demoniacal, depraved, desperate, despiteful, detrimental, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, disadvantageous, disgraceful, disserviceable, distressing, evil, execrable, exquisite, faulty, fearful, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, flagrant, foul, furious, harmful, hateful, heinous, hellish, hurtful, ill, immoral, improper, inaccurate, inauspicious, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, injurious, invalid, kill-crazy, knavish, lethal, low, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, mischievous, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, noncivilized, nonmoral, noxious, obnoxious, odious, ominous, opprobrious, peccant, pernicious, perverse, perverted, pitiless, poisonous, poor, prejudicial, profligate, putrid, rancorous, rank, ravening, reprehensible, reprobate, rotten, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scandalous, scatheful, septic, severe, shameful, shameless, sharkish, sinful, sinister, slanderous, slavering, spiteful, steeped in vice, subhuman, tameless, terrible, toxic, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfavorable, unforgivable, ungentle, unhealthy, unhuman, unkind, unmoral, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprincipled, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, untamed, untoward, unworthy, vehement, venal, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vice-laden, vice-prone, vile, villainous, vindictive, violent, virulent, wicked, wild, wolfish, wrong

Etymology
From vicious:,  vicious: (modern French vicieux:), from  vitiosus:, from vitium:.

Translations

 * Czech: neřestný


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Adjective

 * 1) ; malicious
 * 2) defective; not capable of functioning