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[wik-id] adjective, -er, -est, adverb
adjective
1.
evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
2.
mischievous or playfully malicious: These wicked kittens upset everything.
3.
distressingly severe, as a storm, wound, or cold: a wicked winter.
4.
unjustifiable; dreadful; beastly: wicked prices; a wicked exam.
5.
having a bad disposition; ill-natured; mean: a wicked horse.
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6.
spiteful; malevolent; vicious: a wicked tongue.
7.
extremely troublesome or dangerous: wicked roads.
8.
unpleasant; foul: a wicked odor.
9.
Slang. wonderful; great; masterful; deeply satisfying: He blows a wicked trumpet.
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adverb
10.
Slang. very; really; totally: That shirt is wicked cool.

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Wicked is always a great word to know.
So is shill. Does it mean:
a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty
a tiresomely disagreeable person

Origin:
1225–75; Middle English wikked, equivalent to wikke bad (representing adj. use of Old English wicca wizard; compare witch) + -ed -ed3

wick·ed·ly, adverb
qua·si-wick·ed, adjective
qua·si-wick·ed·ly, adverb
un·wick·ed, adjective
un·wick·ed·ly, adverb

wicca, wicked.


1. unrighteous, ungodly, godless, impious, profane, blasphemous; immoral, profligate, corrupt, depraved, dissolute; heinous; infamous, villainous. See bad1.


1. good, virtuous.

Example Sentences
  • Mentor also enjoys wicked scenarios, but success is always the best revenge.
  • So the news was both good and bad: the wicked leaders had left, but-it seemed-had got off scot-free.
  • Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has: two children who.
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wick

1[wik]
noun
1.
a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
verb (used with object)
2.
to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English wicke, weke, Old English wice, wēoc(e); cognate with Middle Dutch wiecke, Middle Low German wêke, Old High German wiohha lint, wick (German Wieke lint); akin to Sanskrit vāgura noose

wick·less, adjective
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wicked (ˈwɪkɪd)
 
adj
1.  a.  morally bad in principle or practice
 b.  (as collective noun; preceded by the): the wicked
2.  mischievous or roguish, esp in a playful way: a wicked grin
3.  causing injury or harm
4.  troublesome, unpleasant, or offensive
5.  slang very good
 
[C13: from dialect wick, from Old English wicca sorcerer, wiccewitch1]
 
'wickedly
 
adv
 
'wickedness
 
n

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wick
"dairy farm," now surviving, if at all, as a localism in East Anglia or Essex, it was once the common O.E. wic "dwelling place, abode," then coming to mean "village, hamlet, town," and later "dairy farm" (e.g. Gatwick "Goat-farm"). Common in this latter sense 13c.-14c. The word is a general Gmc. borrowing
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from L. vicus "village, hamlet" (see vicinity). Cf. O.H.G. wih "village," Ger. Weichbild "municipal area," Du. wijk "quarter, district," O.Fris. wik, O.S. wic "village."

wicked
c.1275, earlier wick (12c.), apparently an adj. use of O.E. wicca "wizard" (see wicca). For evolution, cf. wretched from wretch. Slang ironic sense of "wonderful" first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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wicked definition


  1. mod.
    excellent; impressive; cool. (Also in compounds, wicked smart, wicked cool, etc.) : Now this is what I call a wicked guitar.
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