Wicked

4 definitions found

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

  Wicked \Wicked\ (w[i^]kt), a.
     Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a
     two-wicked lamp.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Wicked \Wick"ed\ (w[i^]k"[e^]d), a. [OE. wicked, fr. wicke
     wicked; probably originally the same word as wicche wizard,
     witch. See {Witch}.]
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     1. 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; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed;
        wicked designs.
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              Hence, then, and evil go with thee along,
              Thy offspring, to the place of evil, hell,
              Thou and thy wicked crew!             --Milton.
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              Never, never, wicked man was wise.    --Pope.
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     2. Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
        [Obs.] "Wicked dew." --Shak.
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              This were a wicked way, but whoso had a guide. --P.
                                                    Plowman.
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     3. Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to
        mischief; roguish. [Colloq.]
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              Pen looked uncommonly wicked.         --Thackeray.
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     Syn: Iniquitous; sinful; criminal; guilty; immoral; unjust;
          unrighteous; unholy; irreligious; ungodly; profane;
          vicious; pernicious; atrocious; nefarious; heinous;
          flagrant; flagitious; abandoned. See {Iniquitous}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wicked
       adj 1: morally bad in principle or practice [ant: {virtuous}]
       2: having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person" [syn: {sinful},
           {unholy}]
       3: intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or
          quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a
          terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's
          guns"; "a wicked cough" [syn: {severe}, {terrible}]
       4: morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence";
          "evil deeds" [syn: {evil}] [ant: {good}]
       5: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
          disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
          disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
          "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting}, {disgustful},
           {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome}, {repellent},
           {repellant}, {repelling}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {yucky}]

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

  200 Moby Thesaurus words for "wicked":
     Herculean, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abstruse, adroit, antic,
     arduous, arrant, atrocious, au fait, bad, baleful, barbarous, base,
     bitchy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blue, broad, brutal, capable,
     chancy, children of darkness, clever, competent, complex, criminal,
     critical, cussed, damnable, dark, delicate, delinquent, demanding,
     despiteful, deviant, difficile, difficult, disgraceful,
     dregs of society, evil, evildoing, exacting, execrable, felonious,
     flagitious, flagrant, formidable, foul, godless, good, hairy, hard,
     hard-earned, hard-fought, hardly the thing, harmful, hateful,
     hazardous, heinous, ignominious, ill, illegal, immoral, impious,
     impish, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, inauspicious,
     incorrect, indecorous, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, iniquitous,
     intricate, invalid, invidious, irreligious, jawbreaking,
     jeopardous, knavish, knotted, knotty, laborious, larkish,
     limbs of Satan, low, malefactory, malefic, maleficent, malevolent,
     malfeasant, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous,
     monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, no picnic, not done,
     not easy, not the thing, noxious, off-base, off-color, operose,
     ornery, out-of-line, peccant, perilous, pesky, prankish, pranky,
     pretty, proper, purple, qualified, racy, rank, reprehensible,
     reprobate, rigorous, risky, roguish, rough, rugged, sacrilegious,
     salty, scandalous, set with thorns, severe, shady, shameful,
     shameless, sinful, sinister, sons of Belial, sons of men, spicy,
     spiny, spiteful, steep, strenuous, suggestive, terrible, the bad,
     the evil, the reprobate, the unrighteous, the wicked, thorny,
     ticklish, toilsome, tough, treacherous, tricky, troublous, ugly,
     un-Christly, unangelic, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscionable,
     undue, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, ungodly,
     unhealthy, unholy, unkind, unlawful, unpardonable, unpleasant,
     unrighteous, unsaintly, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable,
     unsuitable, untoward, unworthy, uphill, vexatious, vicious, vile,
     villainous, workmanlike, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful