vicious
Middle English
/visiˈuːs/
adj
Definitions
- Iniquitous, sinful, wicked often in a way that causes harm or vice to/in others
- (rare) Lacking purity or cleanness; spoiled or defiled.
- (rare) Inaccurate, modified, or debased; of substandard quality.
- (rare) Injurious, dangerous; causing serious harm.
Etymology
Borrowed from vicious derived from Latin vitiōsus affix from Middle English vice.
Origin
Middle English
vice
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- unvicious English
- vice English
- viciosity English
- vicious English
- viciously English
- viciousness English
- vitiose Latin
- vitiositas Latin
- vitiōsus Latin
- vezzoso Italian
- vizioso Italian
- vicieux French
- vice Middle English
- viciate Middle English
- viciously Middle English
- viciousnesse Middle English
- vice Old French
- vicious Old French
- viciós Catalan, Valencian
- viçoso Old Portuguese
- vicious xno