Adjective
vicious (comparative more vicious or viciouser, superlative most vicious or viciousest)
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
- Savage and aggressive.
1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
- (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
- We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
1930, Ogden Nash, Lines to Be Mumbled at Ovington's:A murrain on you, Reverend Apse/I hope you get caught in a vicious moral lapse.
Translations
violent, destructive
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- Bulgarian: зъл (bg) (zǎl), злобен (bg) (zloben)
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- Finnish: raju (fi), tuhoisa (fi), väkivaltainen (fi)
- French: violent(e), destructif (m)/destructive (f)
- Georgian: დამანგრეველი (damangreveli), აგრესიული (agresiuli)
- German: gewalttätig (de), destruktiv (de)
- Hungarian: rosszindulatú (hu), rossz (hu), gonosz (hu)
- Italian: violento (it)
- Japanese: 狂暴 (kyōbō) (violent, furious), 危険 (ja) (kiken) (dangerous)
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- Polish: bezwzględny (pl), zacietrzewiony (pl)
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- Russian: злой (ru) (zloj), зло́бный (ru) (zlóbnyj), я́ростный (ru) (járostnyj), свире́пый (ru) (svirépyj)
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- Turkish: agresif (tr), saldırgan (tr)
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pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity
- Armenian: արատավոր (hy) (aratavor)
- Bulgarian: порочен (bg) (poročen)
- Cebuano: mapintas nga
- Czech: neřestný
- Esperanto: malvirta
- Finnish: paheellinen (fi)
- French: vicieux (fr)
- Georgian: მანკიერი (manḳieri), ბიწიერი (bic̣ieri), უზნეო (uzneo)
- German: böse (de), boshaft (de), übel (de), unmoralisch (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (unmanariggws)
- Hungarian: erkölcstelen (hu)
- Igbo: ajọ
- Irish: ainbhéasach, coirpe, drochmhúinte, duáilceach, mínáireach, oilbhéasach, olc
- Japanese: 悪徳 (ja) (akutoku) (dishonest, crooked), 堕落した (ja) (daraku shita) (corrupt, depraved)
- Javanese: ganas (jv)
- Latin: vitiosus
- Russian: поро́чный (ru) (poróčnyj)
- Spanish: vicioso (es)
- Swedish: illvillig (sv), elak (sv), ond (sv), omoralisk (sv)
- Turkish: ahlaksız (tr), kötü (tr), muzır (tr)
- Welsh: gwydus
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /visiˈuːs/, /visˈjuːs/, /ˈvisjus/
Adjective
vicious m (oblique and nominative feminine singular viciouse)
- vicious; malicious
- defective; not capable of functioning
Declension
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Descendants
- Middle English: vicious, viciows, vicius, vycious, vycyus, vicyous, vecyous, vysyous, vycios, vycyous, vicyows