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What is "vicious" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does vicious mean in English? Meaning of vicious definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "vicious" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "vicious": (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

Adjective

  • Meaning: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  • Example: a barbarous crime brutal beatings cruel tortures Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks a savage slap vicious kicks
  • Synonyms: barbarous brutal cruel fell roughshod savage vicious
  • Similar: inhumane

    • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈvɪʃəs/

    Meaning of "vicious": having the nature of vice

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having the nature of vice
  • Synonyms: evil vicious
  • Similar: wicked

    • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈvɪʃəs/

    Meaning of "vicious": bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

    Adjective

  • Meaning: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
  • Example: a criminal waste of talent a deplorable act of violence adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
  • Synonyms: condemnable criminal deplorable reprehensible vicious
  • Similar: wrong

    • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈvɪʃəs/

    Meaning of "vicious": marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful

    Adjective

  • Meaning: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
  • Example: poisonous hate venomous criticism vicious gossip
  • Synonyms: poisonous venomous vicious
  • Similar: malicious

    • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈvɪʃəs/

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    vicious in English: vicious
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