What is another word for vicious?
848 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ vˈɪʃəs], [ vˈɪʃəs], [ v_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for vicious:- bad (adjective)
- barbarian (adjective)
- barbarous (adjective)
- bitchy (adjective)
- brutal (adjective)
- catty (adjective)
- concentrated (adjective)
- corrupt, wrong (adjective)
- criminal (adjective)
- cruel (adjective)
- cutthroat (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- degenerate (adjective)
- depraved (adjective)
- despiteful (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- diabolic (adjective)
- disreputable (adjective)
- dissolute (adjective)
- dog-eat-dog (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- exquisite (adjective)
- ferocious (adjective)
- fiendish (adjective)
- fierce (adjective)
- filthy (adjective)
- foul (adjective)
- furious (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- heinous (adjective)
- ill-tempered (adjective)
- immoral (adjective)
- imperfect (adjective)
- infamous (adjective)
- inhuman (adjective)
- inhuman/inhumane (adjective)
- ireful (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- lousy (adjective)
- malevolent (adjective)
- malicious (adjective)
- malign (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- mephitical (adjective)
- mischievous (adjective)
- miscreant (adjective)
- monstrous (adjective)
- nasty (adjective)
- nasty, hateful (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pestilent/pestilential (adjective)
- poison/poisonous (adjective)
- rotten (adjective)
- ruthless (adjective)
- savage (adjective)
- sinful (adjective)
- sordid (adjective)
- spiteful (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- unfair (adjective)
- untamed (adjective)
- vehement (adjective)
- venomous (adjective)
- violent (adjective)
- wanton (adjective)
- wicked (adjective)
- wild (adjective)
- fell (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- roughshod (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- corrupt
- harsh
- injurious
Synonyms for Vicious:
adj.
•bad (adjective) •barbarian (adjective) •barbarous (adjective) •bitchy (adjective) •brutal (adjective) •catty (adjective) •concentrated (adjective) •corrupt, wrong (adjective)- atrocious,
- iniquitous,
- villainous,
- reprobate,
- perverse,
- foul,
- abandoned,
- infamous,
- dangerous,
- unprincipled,
- reprehensible,
- contaminated,
- worthless,
- degraded,
- Fiendish,
- heinous,
- wild,
- violent,
- abhorrent,
- putrid,
- wicked.
- more wildcat,
- most indictable,
- out line,
- un lawful,
- more unrighteous,
- more racket,
- un-righteous,
- most racket,
- off base,
- most wildcat,
- scandalous,
- more indictable,
- most unrighteous,
- un-lawful,
- un righteous,
- shady,
- illegal.
- cold blooded,
- un kindest,
- un-kindest,
- in exorable,
- more demoniac,
- most hard hearted,
- hard hearted,
- more hard-hearted,
- most hard-hearted,
- un relenting,
- un-natural,
- un kind,
- un natural,
- un-kind,
- painful,
- flinty,
- most demoniac,
- re vengeful,
- in-exorable,
- un kinder,
- un-kinder,
- more hard hearted,
- un-relenting,
- re-vengeful.
- de generated,
- de-generated,
- more demeaned,
- de-graded,
- un healthier,
- de-cadent,
- most degenerated,
- more degenerated,
- more worsen,
- un healthy,
- de based,
- retro grade,
- more overripe,
- de-generate,
- more vitiated,
- de graded,
- retro-grade,
- most flatitious,
- un-healthy,
- most demeaned,
- un-healthier,
- most vitiated,
- de cadent,
- de-based,
- most overripe,
- more flatitious,
- over ripe,
- de generate,
- un-healthiest,
- most worsen,
- un healthiest.
- gone to dogs,
- lascivious,
- more dirty-minded,
- most dirtyminded,
- most dirty-minded,
- dirtyminded,
- shameless,
- dirty minded,
- most dirty minded,
- more dirtyminded,
- more warped,
- gone dogs,
- more vitiate,
- gone the dogs,
- most flagitous,
- more dirty minded,
- more flagitous,
- most warped,
- most vitiate,
- warped.
- de-monic,
- de monic,
- more mephistophelian,
- most mephistophelian,
- un hallowed,
- un pleasant,
- un-pleasant.
- lecherous,
- wayward,
- on the take,
- gone bad,
- lax,
- sybaritic,
- nighthawk,
- high living,
- in the fast lane,
- night owl.
- Flipped,
- enraged,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- more flipped,
- howling,
- tumultous tumultuous,
- tumultous-tumultuous,
- tumultoustumultuous,
- most howling,
- in-tensest,
- in tense,
- more howling,
- un controllable,
- in-tenser,
- most flipped,
- apest,
- un-controllable.
- in decent,
- in-decent,
- more foul mouthed,
- most foul mouthed,
- most foul-mouthed,
- foul mouthed,
- more foul-mouthed,
- suggestive.
- de-testable,
- de testable,
- un cleaner,
- yecchier,
- more polluted,
- un just,
- un justest,
- egregious,
- un-just,
- un-cleanest,
- un juster,
- more caitiff,
- un scrupulous,
- more sullied,
- under-handed,
- un-juster,
- most caitiff,
- more contaminated,
- un-justest,
- most polluted,
- dis-honorable,
- under-hand,
- most contaminated,
- under handed,
- un-cleaner,
- un cleanest,
- dis honorable,
- in equitable,
- under hand,
- un clean,
- more pigpen,
- un-clean,
- yucky,
- yecchiest,
- most pigpen,
- un-scrupulous,
- most sullied,
- mucky,
- in-equitable.
- in sane,
- in-censed,
- most rampageous,
- most smoking,
- more maniac,
- in sanest,
- more maddened,
- more steamed,
- most maniac,
- most maddened,
- more hacked,
- un-reasonable,
- in saner,
- more smoking,
- steamed,
- most steamed,
- most fuming,
- up arms,
- more rampageous,
- more corybantic,
- in censed,
- un-governable,
- fit be tied,
- on warpath,
- in-sane,
- most hacked,
- most corybantic,
- in-saner,
- more blustering,
- most blustering,
- un governable,
- more fuming,
- bent out shape,
- more intensified,
- un reasonable,
- most intensified.
- uncool,
- shuddersome,
- more shuddersome,
- un cool,
- dis gusting,
- malevolent,
- more uncool,
- most cussed,
- un-cool,
- un desirable,
- most uncool,
- most shuddersome,
- dis-gusting,
- malicious,
- un-desirable,
- more cussed.
- dis-honest,
- un-chaste,
- xrated,
- un-chaster,
- dis honest,
- un-ethical,
- un chastest,
- un chaste,
- most saturnalian,
- x rated,
- more saturnalian,
- un chaster,
- un ethical,
- un-chastest.
- illfamed,
- in-famous,
- more ill famed,
- most ill-famed,
- ill famed,
- in famous,
- more illfamed,
- most ill famed,
- most illfamed,
- more ill-famed.
- Black-hearted,
- corrosive,
- hurtful,
- malignant,
- antagonistic,
- ill-natured,
- vindictive,
- bitter,
- venomous,
- sullen,
- treacherous,
- baleful,
- perfidious,
- bad-natured,
- churlish,
- rancorous,
- sinister,
- baneful,
- hostile.
- ill disposed,
- more ill disposed,
- more ill-disposed,
- most illdisposed,
- greeneyed,
- illdisposed,
- most ill disposed,
- most ill-disposed,
- green eyed,
- more illdisposed.
- lowdown and dirty,
- liverish,
- toucher,
- the lowest,
- hardnosed,
- low-down and dirty,
- low-down dirty,
- snide,
- ornery.
- teasing,
- most ill behaved,
- impish,
- most exasperating,
- more illbehaved,
- mis-behaving,
- pre-carious,
- ex asperating,
- more rascally,
- more rascal,
- most rascal,
- pre carious,
- more exasperating,
- more misbehaving,
- holy terror,
- most rascally,
- most dickens,
- more dickens,
- most ill-behaved,
- most vexing,
- mischievous,
- ill behaved,
- illbehaved,
- ex-asperating,
- more ill behaved,
- most misbehaving,
- most illbehaved,
- more vexing,
- more ill-behaved,
- mis behaving.
- un-canny,
- more horrifying,
- more teratoid,
- most miscreated,
- Miscreated,
- most horrifying,
- un-canniest,
- mis created,
- un-cannier,
- un canny,
- un usual,
- in tolerable,
- most teratoid,
- un-usual,
- mis-created,
- un cannier,
- un canniest,
- in-tolerable,
- more miscreated.
- cussed,
- vehement,
- slanderous,
- defamatory,
- beastly,
- Backbiting,
- intense,
- dirty,
- frightful,
- horrid,
- rough.
- demoniac,
- unfair,
- ill-disposed,
- inhumane,
- dickens,
- over-ripe,
- bitchy,
- flatitious,
- savage,
- ill-famed,
- filthy,
- slummier,
- hard-shelled,
- destructive,
- hopped up,
- vile,
- wanton,
- ferocious,
- ruthless,
- toxicant,
- on the warpath,
- catty,
- indictable,
- hopping mad,
- low-down,
- Corybantic,
- despiteful,
- tough,
- browned off,
- bribable,
- sordid,
- lousy,
- diabolic,
- perverted,
- unrighteous,
- without pity,
- cruel,
- hard as nails,
- unprovoked,
- mean,
- Miasmatic,
- rascally,
- bummed out,
- fierce,
- satanic,
- in a state of nature,
- hardboiled,
- nasty,
- rotten,
- very grave,
- head-strong,
- exquisite,
- disreputable,
- barbarous,
- dissolute,
- sinful,
- cattish,
- diabolical,
- without mercy,
- morally wrong,
- bad,
- brutish,
- furious,
- bent out of shape,
- immoral,
- Satanical,
- nonliterate,
- foul-mouthed,
- toxiferous,
- harmful baneful,
- unregenerate,
- imperfect,
- overripe,
- wolfish,
- profligate,
- Viperous,
- dirty-minded,
- ravening,
- brutal,
- aper,
- criminal,
- hard line,
- ireful,
- rampageous,
- flagitious,
- lowdown,
- tigerish,
- Saturnalian,
- motiveless,
- smoking,
- cutthroat,
- demeritorious,
- slummy,
- unmodified,
- miscreant,
- Teratoid,
- un-regenerate,
- hellish,
- hateful,
- coldblooded,
- malign,
- degenerate,
- desperate,
- barbarian,
- virulent,
- unrightful,
- malefic,
- undomesticated,
- godawful,
- out of line,
- Hard-hearted,
- on the make,
- yecchy,
- depraved,
- hyper,
- ugly,
- of easy virtue,
- ironfisted,
- demonical,
- Ogreish,
- wrong,
- unsporting,
- hardbitten,
- Viperish,
- gone to the dogs,
- ruffianly,
- un-hallowed,
- sadistic,
- ill-behaved,
- flagitous,
- Hacked,
- spiteful,
- septic,
- nefarious,
- dog-eat-dog,
- concentrated.
- dis-eased,
- dis eased,
- more contaminating,
- more pestilent,
- more tainting,
- most contaminating,
- most tainting.
- mephitic,
- more miasmatic,
- more septic,
- most septic,
- infective,
- more infective,
- most infective,
- most miasmatic,
- most toxiferous,
- more toxiferous.
- unforgiving,
- un yielding,
- most ironfisted,
- un forgiving,
- un-yielding,
- killer,
- un appeasable,
- un-appeasable,
- more ironfisted,
- more killer,
- most killer,
- un-forgiving.
- in state nature,
- unspoiled,
- more unbroken,
- more unmodified,
- most unmodified,
- in a state nature,
- un modified,
- un spoiled,
- un-broken,
- un broken,
- most unbroken,
- more nonliterate,
- non literate,
- un-modified,
- most nonliterate,
- non-literate,
- in state of nature,
- un-spoiled.
- un-holiest,
- most unregenerate,
- un godliest,
- un holier,
- de meritorious,
- un godly,
- un-holier,
- more unregenerate,
- un-godly,
- un-godlier,
- un-godliest,
- de-meritorious,
- un holiest,
- un-holy,
- most demeritorious,
- un holy,
- un regenerate,
- more demeritorious,
- un godlier.
- uncleanly,
- more low-down,
- more low down,
- most low-down,
- un-cleanliest,
- more lowdown,
- slumer,
- un cleanlier,
- slumest,
- small minded,
- slummiest,
- un-generous,
- un-cleanlier,
- selfseeking,
- un cleanliest,
- self seeking,
- un generous,
- most low down,
- smallminded,
- un-cleanly,
- most lowdown,
- un cleanly,
- low down.
- hard bitten,
- in-tractable,
- in flexible,
- re-solute,
- ex-acting,
- un-bending,
- more hard shelled,
- un-manageable,
- more hardshelled,
- ex acting,
- hard shelled,
- most ruffianly,
- in tractable,
- un-alterable,
- most hardshelled,
- un bending,
- most hard shelled,
- more hard-shelled,
- in-flexible,
- un alterable,
- un-compromising,
- un compromising,
- hardline,
- hard boiled,
- hardshelled,
- re solute,
- un manageable,
- more ruffianly,
- most hard-shelled.
- dis-criminatory,
- more unsporting,
- most unsporting,
- most cheating,
- un-fairer,
- more cheating,
- un fairer,
- most unrightful,
- un fair,
- un-justifiable,
- uncalledfor,
- un-duest,
- un due,
- more unrightful,
- un duest,
- in excusable,
- un-fair,
- un justifiable,
- un-warranted,
- un fairest,
- un-rightful,
- un sporting,
- onesided,
- in-excusable,
- un rightful,
- one sided,
- un-duer,
- dis criminatory,
- un-sporting,
- un-due,
- un-fairest.
n.
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- awful,
- monstrous,
- unkind,
- pitiless,
- uncharitable.
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- angry,
- storm cloud,
- fury,
- lightning,
- sheet lightning,
- chain lightning,
- landfall,
- unruly,
- eye,
- forked lightning,
- insubordinate,
- untamed.
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- attitude.
- fell.
- evil.
v.
•Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- bestial,
- disorderly,
- full-frontal,
- inhuman,
- riotous.
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- truculent.
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- black.
- debased,
- licentious,
- libidinous,
- demoralized,
- base,
- pure,
- indecent,
- faulty,
- impious,
- impure,
- lewd.
Paraphrases for Vicious:
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Independent
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Adjective
treacherous, murderous, barbarous, horrific, terrible, hideous, destructive, draconian, harsh, insufferable, appalling, perverted, relentless, gruesome, bad, erroneous, brutish, serious, invidious, aggressive, monstrous, disastrous, horrifying, warped, tricky, dreadful, dastardly, unhealthy, horrid, brute, repugnant, reprehensible, awful, abusive, dirty, perilous, downward, unspeakable.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
ferocious, malicious, heinous, brutal, wicked, fierce, evil, ruthless, atrocious, violent, cruel, odious, merciless, callous, virulent, egregious, pernicious, insidious, savage, perverse, obnoxious, horrendous, sadistic, nefarious, vile, infernal, bloodthirsty, barbaric, sinister, hellish, mischievous, nasty, horrible, malevolent, abhorrent, heartless, severe, cut-throat, outrageous, hateful, bloody, loathsome, cold-blooded, despicable, abominable, dangerous, inclement, malignant.
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Proper noun, singular
malignant.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Vicious:
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adj.
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corrupt, wrong
friendly, calm, good, honorable, mild, civilized, pure, respectable, right, pleasant, kind, glorious, moral, tame, innocent, nice, gentle, virtuous.
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nasty, hateful
forgiving, helpful, moderate, upright, peaceful, sympathetic, thoughtful, decent, loving.
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Other antonyms:
benign, hearty, law-abiding, cultured, lawful, perfect, feeble, clement, pitying, supported, uncorrupted, meritorious, irreproachable, encouraged, diminished, submissive, esteemed, white, congenial, alleviated, warm, charitable, unobjectionable, just, high, decorous, respected, venerable, exemplary, correct, gracious, immaculate, affectionate, upstanding, lessened, creditable, incorruptible, reduced, shallow, squeaky-clean, sanctioned, nightly, high-minded, altruistic, superficial, agreeable, inoffensive, eased, humanitarian, commendable, lenient, compliant, approved, human, proper, peaceable, permissible, philanthropic, amorous, light, companionable, authorized, weak, reputable, amiable, soft, pacific, seemly, guiltless, endorsed, affable, merciful, decreased, chaste, cordial, blameless, toned, obliging, lily-white, spotless, wholesome, unerring, qualified, permitted, subdued, moderated, amicable, legitimate, nocturnal, complaisant, licensed, unaggressive, worthy, comradely, sweet, genial.
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corrupt, wrong