Vicious Synonyms and Antonyms

vĭshəs
Prone to cruelty
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. evil
  2. cruel
  3. wicked
  4. hateful
  5. malicious
  6. mean
  7. nasty
  8. spiteful
  9. savage
  10. black
  11. despiteful
  12. (colloq.) malignant
  13. malevolent
  14. atrocious
  15. bad
  16. beastly
  17. corrupt
  18. corrupting
  19. dangerous
  20. malign
  21. debasing
  22. defective
  23. depraved
  24. malignant
  25. diabolical
  26. egregious
  27. brutal
  28. faulty
  29. feral
  30. ferocious
  31. fiendish
  32. fierce
  33. flagitious
  34. flagrant
  35. foul
  36. poisonous
  37. roughshod
  38. heinous
  39. immoral
  40. imperfect
  41. iniquitous
  42. venomous
  43. sinful
  44. nefarious
  45. noxious
  46. barbarous
  47. refractory
  48. rotten
  49. bitchy
  50. severe
  51. terrible
  52. unmanageable
  53. unruly
  54. vehement
  55. vile
  56. villainous
  57. vindictive
  58. violent
  59. wild
  60. wrong
  61. fell
So intense as to cause extreme suffering
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cruel
  2. ferocious
  3. fierce
  4. savage

Words Related to Vicious

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Vicious Sentence Examples

  • She thinks she is some kind of vicious animal.

  • This was not a mangy or vicious creature standing before him, but a breathtakingly beautiful, gigantic wolf.

  • I shall die! she muttered, wrenching herself from Marya Dmitrievna's hands with a vicious effort and sinking down again into her former position.

  • A vicious circle is obviously involved.

  • All these years I thought I was a vicious killer.

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