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adjective, -er, -est, adverb | 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. |
| 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. |
| 10. | Slang. very; really; totally: That shirt is wicked cool. |
[wik] | 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. |
| 2. | to draw off (liquid) by capillary action. |
| wick (wĭk) n.
To convey or be conveyed by capillary action: water gradually wicking up through the bricks. [Middle English wike, from Old English wēoce.] |
| wick·ed (wĭk'ĭd) adj. wick·ed·er, wick·ed·est
Used as an intensive: "a ... body suit, which she describes as wicked comfortable" (Nathan Cobb). [Middle English, alteration of wicke, ultimately from Old English wicca, sorcerer; see witch.] wick'ed·ly adv., wick'ed·ness n. |