vicious

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering (Freq. 4)
- a barbarous crime
- brutal beatings
- cruel tortures
- Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
- a savage slap
- vicious kicks
• Syn:
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage
• Similar to:
inhumane
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness, savage (for: savage), savageness (for: savage), cruelness (for: cruel), brutality (for: brutal), barbarousness (for: barbarous)
2. having the nature of vice (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
evil
• Similar to:
wicked
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness, vice, evilness (for: evil)
3. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
- a criminal waste of talent
- a deplorable act of violence
- adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
• Syn:
condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible
• Similar to:
wrong
• Derivationally related forms:
reprehend (for: reprehensible), reprehensibility (for: reprehensible)
4. marked by deep ill will;
deliberately harmful
- poisonous hate
- venomous criticism
- vicious gossip
• Syn:
poisonous, venomous
• Similar to:
malicious
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness, venom (for: venomous), poison (for: poisonous)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  poisonous, venomous, condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, evil, barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage