Wicked

/ˈwɪk.ɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible..

Definitions by Sense

1. Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
2. Harsh; severe.
3. (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; exceptional.
4. (slang, especially Boston, archaic in Lancashire, Scotland) To a superlative extent, very, extremely
5. Wicked (evil) people collectively.
6. simple past and past participle of wick
7. Having a wick.
8. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Active; brisk.

Example Sentences

Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.

“Yes,” replied she; “and the saddest part of it all is that she is not marrying the man she loves. Oh, it is terrible. Marrying from a sense of duty! I think it is perfectly wicked, and I told her so.”

‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way / What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you / What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way

wicked wind

That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!

The Artemis II astronauts sent back descriptions of the total solar eclipse they viewed from space to NASA's Mission Control. "It’s truly hard to describe. It is amazing," pilot Victor Glover said. Glover said that the Orion spacecraft was made as dark as possible due to every bit of light in the cabin affecting the view. "It’s a wicked view," he said of the darkened moon with deep space behind it.

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Word Forms

• wickeder
• more wicked
• wickedest
• most wicked
• the wicked

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