Synonyms for Nefarious:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • nefarious.
  •atrocious (adjective)
  • beastlier,
  • more godawful,
  • scandalous,
  • grodier,
  • grodiest,
  • monstrous,
  • beastliest,
  • most godawful.
  •bad (adjective)
  • treacherous.
  •bad, sinful (adjective)
  • execrable,
  • flagitious,
  • wicked,
  • shameful,
  • dreadful,
  • heinous,
  • glaring,
  • iniquitous,
  • gross,
  • horrible,
  • base,
  • putrid,
  • corrupt,
  • infernal,
  • foul,
  • abominable,
  • infamous,
  • flagrant,
  • rank.
  •corrupt (adjective)
  • 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.
  •criminal (adjective)
  • 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.
  •crooked (adjective)
  • untruthful.
  •degenerate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •depraved (adjective)
  • 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.
  •devilish (adjective)
  • 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.
  •diabolic (adjective)
  • un pleasant,
  • un-pleasant.
  •diabolical (adjective)
  • Fiendish.
  •disreputable (adjective)
  • disreputable,
  • contemptible,
  • shifty,
  • ribald,
  • risque,
  • notorious,
  • questionable,
  • louche,
  • dishonorable,
  • shady,
  • dubious.
  •egregious (adjective)
  • egregious.
  •evil (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fiendish (adjective)
  • more demonical,
  • most demonical.
  •foul (adjective)
  • 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.
  •heinous (adjective)
  • unspeakable,
  • un speakable,
  • horrendous,
  • un-speakable.
  •immoral (adjective)
  • most saturnalian,
  • x rated,
  • un-chaster,
  • in decent,
  • un chaste,
  • in-decent,
  • un-chastest,
  • more saturnalian,
  • un chaster,
  • xrated,
  • un-chaste,
  • un chastest.
  •infamous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •miscreant (adjective)
  • re prehensible,
  • re-prehensible,
  • more rascally,
  • most rascally.
  •outrageous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •pernicious (adjective)
  • miasmic,
  • Miasmatic.
  •perverse (adjective)
  • 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.
  •rotten (adjective)
  • de-filed,
  • de filed,
  • most dirtied,
  • more dirtied,
  • dis-loyal,
  • dis loyal.
  •unlawful (adjective)
  • more under-the-counter,
  • most unlicensed,
  • most under-the-counter,
  • out lawed,
  • more under the counter,
  • un-licensed,
  • out-lawed,
  • un-lawful,
  • un lawful,
  • un authorized,
  • un licensed,
  • most under the counter,
  • un-authorized,
  • outlawed,
  • more unlicensed.
  •vicious (adjective)
  • in subordinate,
  • un-tamed,
  • in-subordinate,
  • de moralized,
  • de-moralized,
  • un tamed,
  • untamed.
  •vile (adjective)
  • dis gusting,
  • dis-gusting.
  •wicked (adjective)
  • lowdown.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Despisable.
  •
  • lousy,
  • opprobrious,
  • obnoxious,
  • despicable,
  • detestable,
  • odious,
  • abhorrent.
  •
  • disgusting,
  • shabby,
  • antipathetic,
  • wretched.
  •
  • filthy.
  •
  • low.
  •
  • nasty.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    heinous, evil.

• Independent

  • 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.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    infamous, outrageous, abominable, horrendous, reprehensible, vicious, despicable, sinister, abhorrent, deleterious, shameful, atrocious, obnoxious.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    evil, viciousness.

Antonyms for Nefarious:

• adj.

  • bad, sinful
    honorable, magnificent, pleasing, worthy, pleasant, virtuous, nice, respectable, gentle, good, wonderful, delightful, kind.
  • 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.

Homophones for Nefarious:

• nephrosis, Newburg Sauce, nebraska, numbers, nouveau-riche, non pros, nonporous, noun phrase, newburgh.