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wick⋅ed

  [wik-id] adjective, -er, -est, adverb
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–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.
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.
–adverb
10. Slang. very; really; totally: That shirt is wicked cool.
Origin:
1225–75; ME wikked, equiv. to wikke bad (repr. adj. use of OE wicca wizard; cf. witch ) + -ed -ed 3

Related forms:
wick⋅ed⋅ly, adverb

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

Antonyms:
1. good, virtuous.
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wick·ed   (wĭk'ĭd)   
adj.   wick·ed·er, wick·ed·est

  1. Evil by nature and in practice: "this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred" (Winston S. Churchill).

  2. Playfully malicious or mischievous: a wicked prank; a critic's wicked wit.

  3. Severe and distressing: a wicked cough; a wicked gash; wicked driving conditions.

  4. Highly offensive; obnoxious: a wicked stench.

  5. Slang Strikingly good, effective, or skillful: a wicked curve ball; a wicked imitation.

adv.   Slang
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
wicked

  1. mod.
    excellent; impressive; cool. (Also in compounds, wicked smart, wicked cool, etc.) : Now this is what I call a wicked guitar.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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