Heinous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heinous \Hei"nous\ (h[=a]"n[u^]s), a. [OF. ha["i]nos hateful, F.
     haineux, fr. OF. ha["i]ne hate, F. haine, fr. ha["i]r to
     hate; of German origin. See {Hate}.]
     Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving
     great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. --Hooker.
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           How heinous had the fact been, how deserving
           Contempt!                                --Milton.
  
     Syn: Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious. --
          {Hei"nous*ly}, adv. -- {Hei"nous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heinous
       adj : shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime";
             "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous
             crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to
             commit" [syn: {atrocious}, {flagitious}, {grievous}, {monstrous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  140 Moby Thesaurus words for "heinous":
     abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base,
     beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black,
     blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, criminal,
     crude, crummy, crying, damnable, dark, debased, degraded,
     deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, dire,
     dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous,
     evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding,
     foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, horrible, horrid,
     ignoble, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable,
     little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy,
     mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous,
     nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious,
     objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous,
     paltry, peccant, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank,
     rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate,
     reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scabby,
     scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby,
     shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, sordid,
     squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unforgivable,
     unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile,
     villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong