What is another word for nefarious?
582 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ nəfˈe͡əɹɪəs], [ nəfˈeəɹɪəs], [ n_ə_f_ˈeə_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for nefarious:- all (adjective)
- atrocious (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- bad, sinful (adjective)
- corrupt (adjective)
- criminal (adjective)
- crooked (adjective)
- degenerate (adjective)
- depraved (adjective)
- devilish (adjective)
- diabolic (adjective)
- diabolical (adjective)
- disreputable (adjective)
- egregious (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- fiendish (adjective)
- foul (adjective)
- heinous (adjective)
- immoral (adjective)
- infamous (adjective)
- miscreant (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- outrageous (adjective)
- pernicious (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- rotten (adjective)
- unlawful (adjective)
- vicious (adjective)
- vile (adjective)
- wicked (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Nefarious:
adj.
•all (adjective) •atrocious (adjective) •bad (adjective) •bad, sinful (adjective)- execrable,
- flagitious,
- wicked,
- shameful,
- dreadful,
- heinous,
- glaring,
- iniquitous,
- gross,
- horrible,
- base,
- putrid,
- corrupt,
- infernal,
- foul,
- abominable,
- infamous,
- flagrant,
- rank.
- more abased,
- most profiteering,
- un-ethical,
- gone the dogs,
- perfidious,
- un-trustworthy,
- more exploiting,
- re probate,
- un-faithful,
- gone dogs,
- double-dealing,
- more suborned,
- de graded,
- most dishonored,
- under-handed,
- most abased,
- de-graded,
- dis honored,
- doubledealing,
- on take,
- gone to dogs,
- more profiteering,
- on the take,
- in constant,
- un trustworthy,
- un principled,
- un ethical,
- under handed,
- two faced,
- in-constant,
- un faithful,
- dis solute,
- un-principled,
- fast loose,
- un scrupulous,
- most suborned,
- un-scrupulous,
- dis-solute,
- re-probate,
- more bribable,
- twofaced,
- most exploiting,
- more dishonored,
- dis-honored,
- most bribable.
- more unrighteous,
- most indictable,
- most wildcat,
- off base,
- most unrighteous,
- un righteous,
- most racket,
- out line,
- more indictable,
- more racket,
- un-righteous,
- illegal,
- more wildcat.
- de-cadent,
- de generated,
- de-generated,
- most overripe,
- most degenerated,
- more vitiated,
- de-based,
- most demeaned,
- over ripe,
- retro grade,
- more overripe,
- more demeaned,
- more flatitious,
- de-generate,
- de generate,
- more degenerated,
- retro-grade,
- most vitiated,
- more worsen,
- de cadent,
- most worsen,
- most flatitious,
- de based.
- dirtyminded,
- more dirty minded,
- un-natural,
- un natural,
- dirty minded,
- more warped,
- more flagitous,
- most flagitous,
- more vitiate,
- most dirty minded,
- shameless,
- most vitiate,
- warped,
- most dirtyminded,
- more dirtyminded,
- lascivious,
- most dirty-minded,
- more dirty-minded,
- most warped.
- de-testable,
- de testable,
- in-human,
- most cloven-footed,
- more mephistophelian,
- more demoniac,
- de-monic,
- most brutish,
- most hellborn,
- most mephistophelian,
- more clovenfooted,
- more cloven footed,
- more cloven-footed,
- in human,
- de monic,
- more brutish,
- un hallowed,
- most clovenfooted,
- more hellborn,
- clovenfooted,
- most demoniac,
- most cloven footed,
- cloven footed.
- disreputable,
- contemptible,
- shifty,
- ribald,
- risque,
- notorious,
- questionable,
- louche,
- dishonorable,
- shady,
- dubious.
- baneful,
- disgraceful,
- reprehensible,
- destructive,
- repellent,
- devilish,
- repugnant,
- damnable,
- loathsome,
- revolting,
- terrible,
- bad,
- no good,
- sinister,
- diabolical,
- repulsive,
- unpropitious,
- offensive,
- black,
- hideous,
- calamitous,
- maleficent,
- detrimental,
- satanic,
- sinful.
- more contaminated,
- un clean,
- un-cleaner,
- most polluted,
- yecchier,
- yucky,
- yecchiest,
- un-cleanest,
- un cleanest,
- more sullied,
- more polluted,
- mucky,
- more pigpen,
- most pigpen,
- most contaminated,
- dis-graceful,
- most sullied,
- un cleaner,
- dis graceful,
- un-clean.
- most saturnalian,
- x rated,
- un-chaster,
- in decent,
- un chaste,
- in-decent,
- un-chastest,
- more saturnalian,
- un chaster,
- xrated,
- un-chaste,
- un chastest.
- illfamed,
- more caitiff,
- most illfamed,
- most ill-famed,
- dis-reputable,
- more ill famed,
- in-famous,
- more ill-famed,
- dis reputable,
- scurviest,
- ill famed,
- more illfamed,
- in famous,
- most ill famed,
- scurvier,
- most caitiff.
- unlawful,
- outrageous,
- profiteering,
- self-willed,
- miscreant,
- under-the-counter,
- pernicious,
- atrocious,
- head-strong,
- overripe,
- crooked,
- rascally,
- Satanical,
- vicious,
- out of line,
- of easy virtue,
- unhealthy,
- unrighteous,
- scurvy,
- gone to the dogs,
- hellish,
- hardnosed,
- praetorian,
- Cloven-footed,
- yecchy,
- dark,
- immoral,
- depraved,
- flagitous,
- flatitious,
- demonical,
- un-hallowed,
- over-ripe,
- grody,
- Hellborn,
- perverse,
- degenerate,
- indictable,
- bribable,
- ill-famed,
- racket up,
- rotten,
- Double dealing,
- Ogreish,
- villainous,
- unlicensed,
- brutish,
- diabolic,
- vile,
- dirty-minded,
- demoniac,
- godawful,
- wide open,
- Saturnalian.
- most debasing,
- most debauching,
- most depraving,
- most disgracing,
- un godliest,
- dis gracing,
- un bearable,
- more disgracing,
- un godlier,
- un-godliest,
- more shaming,
- more depraving,
- un-godlier,
- un godly,
- un-bearable,
- most shaming,
- un-godly,
- de-basing,
- more debasing,
- dis-gracing,
- more debauching,
- de basing.
- dis obedient,
- most self willed,
- most self-willed,
- bad tempered,
- more self-willed,
- more self willed,
- un-yielding,
- dis-obedient,
- un reasonable,
- most selfwilled,
- un yielding,
- self willed,
- selfwilled,
- in tractable,
- badtempered,
- in-tractable,
- un manageable,
- un-manageable,
- hard nosed,
- more selfwilled,
- un-reasonable.
n.
•Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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- Despisable.
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- lousy,
- opprobrious,
- obnoxious,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- odious,
- abhorrent.
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- disgusting,
- shabby,
- antipathetic,
- wretched.
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- filthy.
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- low.
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- nasty.
- dirty,
- lumpen,
- peccant,
- measly,
- blamable,
- beneath contempt,
- maliciousness,
- maligner,
- enormous,
- hatred,
- dishonest,
- cruel,
- mean,
- evil-minded,
- unmentionable,
- blatant,
- poor,
- squalid,
- dishonourable,
- dismal,
- insidious,
- ghastly,
- noisome,
- imp,
- pitiable,
- lawless,
- foxy,
- knavish,
- spitefully,
- shrewd,
- malevolently,
- beastly,
- abject,
- grievous,
- miserable,
- crummy,
- contemptuous,
- scamp,
- grave,
- barbarous,
- sly,
- malign,
- sad,
- reprobate,
- Rancorously,
- Plotting,
- bold,
- fetid,
- too bad,
- dire,
- unscrupulous,
- ungodly,
- cheesy,
- hateful,
- audacious,
- felonious,
- maliciously,
- complete,
- awful,
- rogue,
- reptilian,
- ignominious,
- profligate,
- mischievous,
- regrettable,
- ne'er-do-well,
- impure,
- varlet,
- scornful,
- brazen,
- impious,
- naughty,
- guilty,
- worst,
- Malignly,
- unconscionable,
- machiavellian,
- dissolute,
- poky,
- accursed,
- hostility,
- cunning,
- malicious,
- artful,
- utter,
- unpardonable,
- venal,
- culpable,
- horrid,
- wily,
- scummy,
- calculating,
- beggarly,
- wrong,
- open,
- arrant,
- vagabond,
- duplicitous,
- baleful,
- inconsiderate,
- perverted,
- defiant,
- slick,
- scruffy,
- unforgivable,
- unethical,
- unworthy,
- abandoned,
- malefic,
- venom,
- rapscallion,
- harmful,
- spite,
- deceitful,
- little,
- malevolence,
- sordid,
- amoral,
- pitiful,
- fulsome,
- knave,
- petty,
- rascal,
- evildoer,
- slippery,
- scoundrelly,
- worthless,
- impossible,
- underhanded,
- villain,
- foetid,
- brutal,
- debased,
- scoundrel,
- deplorable,
- scrubby,
- small,
- barefaced,
- unsavory,
- scheming,
- unprincipled,
- malice,
- scabby,
- woeful,
- degraded,
- unregenerate,
- Facinorous,
- shocking,
- bandit,
- crafty,
- lamentable,
- shoddy,
- hatefully,
- unholy,
- improper,
- snide,
- Black-hearted,
- dastardly,
- devious,
- blackguardly,
- conniving,
- blameworthy,
- malignity,
- out-and-out,
- schlock,
- furtive,
- low-down,
- malevolent,
- incarnate,
- malignant,
- conspicuous,
- grisly,
- bitterness,
- pokey,
- tricky,
- monkey,
- intriguing,
- degrading,
- obvious,
- mangy,
- unclean,
- sneaky,
- underhand,
- paltry.
Paraphrases for Nefarious:
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Adjective
pernicious, disastrous, insidious, harmful, dire, adverse, detrimental, wicked, malicious, ominous, perverse, odious, injurious, hideous, negative, inclement, gruesome, damaging, prejudicial, ill-fated, unholy, horrible, appalling, noxious, unspeakable, horrific, dreadful, unfortunate, terrible, grim, destructive, undesirable.
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Adjective
infamous, outrageous, abominable, horrendous, reprehensible, vicious, despicable, sinister, abhorrent, deleterious, shameful, atrocious, obnoxious.
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Noun, singular or mass
evil, viciousness.
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Antonyms for Nefarious:
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adj.
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bad, sinful
honorable, magnificent, pleasing, worthy, pleasant, virtuous, nice, respectable, gentle, good, wonderful, delightful, kind.
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Other antonyms:
esteemed, upright, wholesome, upstanding, reputable, squeaky-clean, legal, endorsed, incorruptible, pure, venerable, respected, lily-white, commendable, permitted, sublime, high, exemplary, lawful, approved, high-minded, clean, perfect, legitimate, licensed, decorous, uncorrupted, correct, nightly, lofty, authorized, meritorious, nocturnal, sanctioned, creditable, irreproachable, elevated, spotless, seemly, law-abiding, blameless, inoffensive, unerring, chaste, white, unobjectionable, immaculate, supported, proper, encouraged, permissible, guiltless.
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bad, sinful
