Wicked
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English
Adjective
Wicked (comparative Wickeder or more Wicked, superlative Wickedest or most Wicked)
- Evil or mischievous by nature.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
- That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!
Notes
- Nouns to which "wicked" is often applied: witch, person, man, woman, angel, deed, act, pleasure, delight, game, way, night, word.
Synonyms
- (evil or mischievous): evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous, See also Thesaurus:bad
- (slang: excellent; awesome): awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad, See also Thesaurus:excellent
Derived terms
Adverb
Wicked (not comparable)
Synonyms
Noun
the wicked plural
- people who are wicked[1].
Verb
wicked
- Simple past tense and past participle of wick.
Adjective
Wicked (not comparable)
Adverbs for Wicked
scarcely; slightly; interestingly; alluringly; terribly; brutally; heinously; undeniably; palpably; manifestly; nefariously; unspeakably; inexpressibly; dreadfully; obscenely; conspicuously; notoriously; infamously.
Thesaurus
Herculean, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abstruse, adroit, antic, arduous, arrant, atrocious, au fait, bad, baleful, barbarous, base, bitchy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blue, broad, brutal, capable, chancy, children of darkness, clever, competent, complex, criminal, critical, cussed, damnable, dark, delicate, delinquent, demanding, despiteful, deviant, difficile, difficult, disgraceful, dregs of society, evil, evildoing, exacting, execrable, felonious, flagitious, flagrant, formidable, foul, godless, good, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hardly the thing, harmful, hateful, hazardous, heinous, ignominious, ill, illegal, immoral, impious, impish, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, inauspicious, incorrect, indecorous, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, intricate, invalid, invidious, irreligious, jawbreaking, jeopardous, knavish, knotted, knotty, laborious, larkish, limbs of Satan, low, malefactory, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malfeasant, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, no picnic, not done, not easy, not the thing, noxious, off-base, off-color, operose, ornery, out-of-line, peccant, perilous, pesky, prankish, pranky, pretty, proper, purple, qualified, racy, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rigorous, risky, roguish, rough, rugged, sacrilegious, salty, scandalous, set with thorns, severe, shady, shameful, shameless, sinful, sinister, sons of Belial, sons of men, spicy, spiny, spiteful, steep, strenuous, suggestive, terrible, the bad, the evil, the reprobate, the unrighteous, the wicked, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, treacherous, tricky, troublous, ugly, un-Christly, unangelic, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscionable, undue, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, ungodly, unhealthy, unholy, unkind, unlawful, unpardonable, unpleasant, unrighteous, unsaintly, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untoward, unworthy, uphill, vexatious, vicious, vile, villainous, workmanlike, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful
Etymology 1
1225-75 Middle English wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of Old English wicca (“wizard, sorcerer”)
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Etymology 2
See wick
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