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adjective
1.
addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
2.
given or readily disposed to evil: a vicious criminal.
3.
reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception.
4.
spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip; a vicious attack.
5.
EXPANDunpleasantly severe: a vicious headache.
6.
characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound: vicious reasoning.
7.
savage; ferocious: They all feared his vicious temper.
8.
(of an animal) having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition: a vicious bull.
9.
COLLAPSEArchaic. morbid, foul, or noxious.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin vitiōsus, equivalent to viti(um) fault, vice1 + -ōsus -ous
1300–50; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin vitiōsus, equivalent to viti(um) fault, vice1 + -ōsus -ous
Related forms
vi·cious·ly, adverb
vi·cious·ness, noun
un·vi·cious, adjective
un·vi·cious·ly, adverb
un·vi·cious·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. abandoned, corrupt, iniquitous, sinful. 4. malevolent.
1. abandoned, corrupt, iniquitous, sinful. 4. malevolent.
Antonyms
1. moral.
1. moral.
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Word Origin & History
vicious
early 14c. (implied in viciously), "of the nature of vice, wicked," from Anglo-Fr. vicious, O.Fr. vicieus, from L. vitiosus "faulty, defective, corrupt," from vitium "fault" (see vice (1)). Meaning "inclined to be savage or dangerous" is first recorded 1711 (originally of animals,
EXPANDespecially horses); that of "full of spite, bitter, severe" is from 1825. In law, "marred by some inherent fault" (late 14c.), hence also this sense in logic (c.1600); cf. vicious circle in reasoning (c.1792), which was given a general sense of "a situation in which action and reaction intensify one another" by 1839.
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