vicious
adjective
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
a barbarous crime
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Sense 2 adjective
having the nature of vice
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Sense 3 adjective
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
a criminal waste of talent
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- reprehensibility derivation
- reprehend derivation
- wrong similar to
Sense 4 adjective
marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
poisonous hate
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | atrocity |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brutality |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cruelness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | savagery |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brute |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | inhumane |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vice |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | brutality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | evilness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | wicked |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reprehensibility |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reprehend |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | wrong |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | brutality |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | poison |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | malice |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | malicious |