wickedadj.1n.adv.
/ˈwɪkɪd/, U.S. /ˈwɪkᵻd/ A. adj.1
1. Bad in moral character, disposition, or conduct; inclined or addicted to wilful wrongdoing; practising or disposed to practise evil; morally depraved. (A term of wide application, but always of strong reprobation, implying a high degree of evil quality.)
a. of a person (or a community of persons). the Wicked One, the Devil, Satan.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective]
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bad-assed1962
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective]
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sinful1863
the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun]
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Nick1647
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Black Spy1699
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Old Roger1725
Lord of the Flies1727
Simmie1728
Old Scratch1734
Old Harry1777
Old Poker1784
Auld Hornie1786
old (auld), ill thief1789
old one1790
little-good1821
Tom Walker1833
bogy1840
diabolarch1845
Old Ned1859
iniquity1899
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 14983 Hercne ou ȝeo tock an, þes wickede [earlier text swicfulle] wifman.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 1 Ich bidde þe hit by my sseld auoreye þe wycked uend.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 76 Of siche vikede men seiþ god bi his prophete [etc.].
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2187 In al heþenis ys no Sarsyn wikkeder þan is he.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 170 Iesu wan he longe hade fast Was temped wid þe wicked [Fairf. 14 wikket] gast.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 2425 Ȝe at wickid ere within ay wickidly ȝe thinke.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 222 All wekyd spyrytys schall for ferd fle away from þe.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 73 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 192 Mare reuerens Is gewine..to vekyt men fore dred..þane to gudmen for luf.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 31 Wikkit tyrane Emperouris.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 46 My wekit kyn that me away cast.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Hviiiv Thow vikkit seruand I forgaiff ye al thy det.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xiii. C Ye men of Sodome were wicked, and synned exceadingly agaynst the Lorde.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 5 Wes not the sacramentis..prophanit be ignorantis and wikit persones?
1567 R. Sempill Test. & Trag. King Henrie (single sheet) O wickit [women] vennomus of natuire.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xiii. 19 There cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sowen in his hart.
1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 John ii. 13 You haue ouercome the wicked one.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 132 You (most wicked Sir) whom to call brother Would euen infect my mouth. View more context for this quotation
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iii. 129 Looking on the poor Christian with..Contempt; but fawning on the wickedest rich men.
1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iii. 207 This Deluge..was a signal Instance of the Divine Vengeance on a Wicked World.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 58 'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. vii. 277 Vice increases, and Men grow daily more and more wicked.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 62 ‘Then you are the wicked cause of my sister's ruin?’ said Jeanie, with a natural touch of indignation.
1820 S. T. Coleridge Introd. to Pilgrim's Progress in Lit. Remains (1838) III. 399 Bunyan was never, in our received sense of the word, wicked. He was chaste, sober, honest; but he was a bitter blackguard..and was fond of a row.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 155 However wicked a man may be, he is sure to find a wickeder.
b. of action, speech, thought, or other personal attribute; also transferred of a thing connected in some way with such action, etc.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > negative
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a1300 Cursor Mundi 1227 Þai him warryd wit wickud dedis.
13.. Northern Passion (A) 506 [Satan] wyl the dryfe in wekyd þoughte.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 217 Þenne was he a-schomed,..And gon..gret deol to make For his wikkede lyf þat he I-liued hedde.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 37 Wickid lawis & wrong execucions of hem.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12991 Na langer Mai i nu þi wicked wordes ber.
c1400 Rom. Rose 7424 They to Wicked Tonge comen That at his gate was syttyng.
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 474 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 21 Throw his wekit sorcery.
c1480 (a1400) St. Philip 66 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 178 Wikit heresy.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. viii. 9 What wicked abhominacions that they do.
1539 Bible (Great) 2 Chron. vii. 14 Yf they..do humble them selues..and turne from their wycked wayes.
1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. iii. 176 Doggis could hir wickit bainis gnaw.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 59 Offences guilded hand may showe by iustice, And oft tis seene the wicked prize it selfe Buyes out the lawe.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 890 Yet not for thy advise or threats I fly These wicked Tents devoted. View more context for this quotation
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 48 All the wicked things, which have..given a black Character to the very Name of a Magician; for under the shelter of Religion, the worst and most Diabolical things were practis'd.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) viii. 67 ‘Yes, hang it,’ (said Sir Pitt, only he used, dear, a much wickeder word).
1878 H. Stevens Bibles Caxton Exhib. 114 In 1855 Mr. Henry Stevens exhibited..a..copy of this long-lost..Bible [of 1631], and..nick-named it ‘The Wicked Bible,’ from the fact that the negative had been left out of the Seventh Commandment by a typographical error.
1905 R. Bagot Passport iii. 23 The mysterious old professor..who wrote wicked books.
c. Designating a stock evil character in a fairy-tale, as Wicked Fairy, Wicked Stepmother, Wicked Uncle, etc. Frequently transferred.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > stock evil character
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1897 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. (1899) 39 He owned a soft, slow smile which well suited the part of the Wicked Uncle.
1906 Sleeping Beauty (‘Tales for Little People’ ed.) 8/2 ‘That looks like the wicked fairy, I'm sure,’ said his majesty to himself.
1946 A. Huxley Let. 26 May (1969) 544 That blessing and curse of cleverness, with which the Fairy Godmother, who is also the Wicked Fairy, endowed me.
1978 M. Babson Tightrope for Three xv. 78 He could not see Lillian in the classic ‘wicked stepmother’ situation.
1982 ‘J. Melville’ Painted Castle i. 21 If you left Tad out of consideration, uncomfortable things were apt to happen. He had a touch of the Wicked Fairy about him.
2. Bad, in various senses (not always clearly distinguishable). Frequent in Middle English use; later chiefly dialect, or in colloquial use as a conscious metaphor (now often jocular) from sense A. 1, and implying ‘very or excessively bad’, ‘horrid’, ‘beastly’.† c. Of wounds, disease: severe; malignant.1663 Earl of Lauderdale in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1884) I. 145 It will be hard to billet me for this wicked inke, for this place affords no better for fine paper. [Cf. ante p. 136 If you write not upon better paper and with better pens, wee will have yow billetted again.]a1704 T. Brown Dialogues of Dead in 4th Vol. Wks. (1720) 182 Retailer of wicked Bottle-Ale and Brandy.1764 H. Walpole Let. 16 July in Corr. (1941) X. 129 They talk wicked French.† e. Difficult or dangerous; esp. of roads, passing into: in bad condition, out of repair (cf. A. 2d).† f. Difficult to do something with. Obsolete.
a. In reference to character or action: cruel, severe, fierce. Of animals: savage, vicious.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective]
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1375 Creation 980 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 136 Who so were..venympd wiþ eny wikked beste.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 5571 Quat he was wicked and wode Again þat folk sua mild of mode!
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3232 Woluez, and whilde swynne, and wykkyde bestez.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. x. 23 Quhat wise thi brothir Eneas..Is blawin and warpit euery coist abowt, Of wickit Juno throw the cruell invy [L. odiis Iunonis acerbæ].
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 308 As they [sc. horses] are wilde and fierce, so are they wicked and harmefull.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii If canker'd Madge, our aunt, Come up the burn, she'll gie 's a wicked rant.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 7 Sae wud and wicket was their wraith [= wrath] Gainst Papish trash and idol-graith.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. i. 8 It's hard to gar a wicked cout leave off flinging.
1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt vii. 151 The Cape buffalo has..the means to carry out his evil intentions when he intends to be wicked.
b. Actually or potentially harmful, destructive, disastrous, or pernicious; baleful; when applied to air, odour, taste, etc., passing into: offensive, foul.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective]
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 124 Aye þe wykkede hetes..aye þe wyckede cheles..aye þe wyckede raynes.
1379 MS Gloucester Cathedral 19 No. 1. i. iii. lf. 6v Wicked ayr or grevaunce, or cold takyng.
c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 626 Thurgh his body wikked wormes crepte.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. xi. f v b/2 Flyes shunne & voyde the wycked & horryble sauour therof.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 18 A fortunat assendent clepen they whan þat no wykkid planete, as saturne or Mars,..is in the hows of the assendent.
c1400 Mandeville xv. [xi]. (1919) 83 The perilous watres & wykkede mareys.
c1400 Song Roland 857 The wekid wedur lastid full long.
c1400 Rom. Rose 6511 If that wikkid deth hym haue I wole go with hym to his graue.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 5638 A wicked strok he him hit.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 59 When þe wykkid fyre was in howsis nere-hand hur.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 12 To vyn the heling of thar hevede, That vikkit vyntir had thame revede.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 412 in Poems (1981) 124 Fell is thy fortoun, wickit is thy weird.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 347 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 69 All wykkyd metys yt wyll degest.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxix. 270 Fenell.. is good agaynst..the bitings of..wicked & venimous beastes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn4v Faire Amorett must dwell in wicked chaines.
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. E3 Who loues to feede vpon a Sallet dish, Among his Herbes some wicked weede may haue.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 323 As wicked dewe, as ere my mother brush'd With Rauens feather from vnwholesome Fen Drop on you both. View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) iv. i. 41 What's good Sir, for a wicked tooth?
1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 41 It is too well known what a wicked number of followers he hath had.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 52 Lest wicked Weeds the Corn shou'd over-run. View more context for this quotation
1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 216 There comes a wicked Cold through that Door,..pray shut it.
1894 G. A. Smith Hist. Geogr. Holy Land 69 Tents may be carried away by wicked gusts.
1894 Times 27 Oct. 7/2 The ‘Milo’ was not a particularly ‘wicked’ engine with regard to giving off sparks.
1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt v. 89 It was a wicked country for fever.
1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Apr. 967 A proprietary..form of chloride of ethyl and inferior to it on account of its wicked smell.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > violent or severe
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14.. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 245 A wycked wound hath me walled.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 221 Þo he was in dispeir of hir lijf, I was sent after & foond hir in wickide staat.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 338 To make a wickid enpostym maturatif.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 102v A water agaynst long continuing vlcers, yea howe peryllous or wycked so euer they bee.
d. Of bad quality; poor, vile, ‘sorry’; occasionally perverted, abnormal; †in early use sometimes merely negative = un- prefix1, dis- prefix.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > abnormal or unnatural
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13.. Spec. S. Edm. in Hampole's Wks. (1895) I. 225 Þare~of commes tresones,..wykked reste [L. inquietudo], Malice and hardnes of herte.
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 530 Ye shal haue..wikkyd loos and wors name. [Cf. quot. a1340 at wick adj.1 2b.]
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 68 A Rial þing expert, þat..amendeþ þe errour als wele of þe first digestion as of þe seconde, and doþ away wicked colour & vnnatural.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 78 Of good sede he repyth wycked corn.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 75 Ane of thame sall be vorth thre Of thame that vikkid chiftane has.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective]
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective]
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craggy1582
perilsome1593
endangering1601
unsafe1621
imperilous1645
ugly1654
warm1726
neck-break1756
wanchancy1768
uncanny1785
unchancy1786
nasty1828
unhealthy1915
windy1919
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > fit for (spec. type of) traffic > in bad condition
wickeda1375
deepc1386
rutty1596
rutted1607
founderous1767
ditchy1888
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3507 Ouer mires & muntaynes & oþer wicked weiȝes.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vii. 27 Þey shulde..amende mesondieux þere-myde and myseyse folke helpe, And wikked wayes wiȝtlich hem amende.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. xci. 50 Bi ful wikkede pases þou shalt go, and wikkede herberwes þou shalt fynde.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. iv. 86 Ontill a wickit place his schip did steir.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xi. 160 Lyke till a wykkit hill of huge wecht [L. mons improbus].
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. xviii. 115 Þe battell was fochtin in ane wikkit place [L. loco iniquo].
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome v. xxii. 222 Quhare ony strait or wikkit passage was.
1600 R. Hakluyt tr. G. B. Ramusio in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 375 It is most wicked way,..because they are inaccessible mountaines.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things)
wickc1330
riotous1340
wickeda1352
untreatablec1374
frowarda1400
inobedient1495
stubborn?1518
unwieldya1538
unruly1548
wieldlessa1560
hard1560
untoward1566
tickle1570
churlish1577
unwieldsome1579
rebellious1587
disobedient1588
unframeable1593
unwilling1593
untractable1601
unmanageable1606
intractable1607
surly1609
unwedgeablea1616
dogged1627
uncontrollable1648
obdurate1651
morose1652
uncompliant1659
sullen1678
unpliant1716
ungovernable1773
sulky1867
intractile1880
unwieldly1881
bunglesome1915
a1352 L. Minot Poems (1887) xi. 8 Þat woning was wikked for to win.
c1400 Brut i. 55 Þat lande was strong and wikkede to wynne.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 155 This lond is ful wikked to be wrought, To hard in hete and ouer softe in wete.
3.
a. In weakened or lighter sense (from A. 1), usually more or less jocular: malicious; mischievous, sly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > playful mischievousness > [adjective]
knavish1552
spritish1566
wickeda1616
monkeyish1621
impish1652
mischievous1675
slya1771
nineteda1798
wansonsy1819
Pucklike1845
picklesome1885
monkey-doodle1886
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 201 That same wicked Bastard of Venus,..that blinde rascally boy. View more context for this quotation
1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 17 A wicked Imp they call a Poet.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 378 Johnson: She is the first woman in the world could she but restrain that wicked tongue of hers.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 149 Rubicund in the jowl, efflorescent on the nose, with a wicked eye at a bumper or a girl.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. iv. v. 195 You are the wickedest witty person I know.
1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xxx. 312 He had..wicked black eyes, and a mouth which laughed even when his face was at rest.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. v. 80 ‘You are not afraid of anything, you know,’ returned the boy, looking wicked.
b. Excellent, splendid; remarkable. slang (originally U.S.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
faireOE
bremea1000
goodlyOE
goodfulc1275
noblec1300
pricec1300
specialc1325
gentlec1330
fine?c1335
singulara1340
thrivena1350
thriven and throa1350
gaya1375
properc1380
before-passinga1382
daintiful1393
principala1398
gradelya1400
burlyc1400
daintyc1400
thrivingc1400
voundec1400
virtuousc1425
hathelc1440
curiousc1475
singlerc1500
beautiful1502
rare?a1534
gallant1539
eximious1547
jolly1548
egregious?c1550
jellyc1560
goodlike1562
brawc1565
of worth1576
brave?1577
surprising1580
finger-licking1584
admirablea1586
excellinga1586
ambrosial1598
sublimated1603
excellent1604
valiant1604
fabulous1609
pure1609
starryc1610
topgallant1613
lovely1614
soaringa1616
twanging1616
preclarent1623
primea1637
prestantious1638
splendid1644
sterling1647
licking1648
spankinga1666
rattling1690
tearing1693
famous1695
capital1713
yrare1737
pure and —1742
daisy1757
immense1762
elegant1764
super-extra1774
trimming1778
grand1781
gallows1789
budgeree1793
crack1793
dandy1794
first rate1799
smick-smack1802
severe1805
neat1806
swell1810
stamming1814
divine1818
great1818
slap-up1823
slapping1825
high-grade1826
supernacular1828
heavenly1831
jam-up1832
slick1833
rip-roaring1834
boss1836
lummy1838
flash1840
slap1840
tall1840
high-graded1841
awful1843
way up1843
exalting1844
hot1845
ripsnorting1846
clipping1848
stupendous1848
stunning1849
raving1850
shrewd1851
jammy1853
slashing1854
rip-staving1856
ripping1858
screaming1859
up to dick1863
nifty1865
premier cru1866
slap-bang1866
clinking1868
marvellous1868
rorty1868
terrific1871
spiffing1872
all wool and a yard wide1882
gorgeous1883
nailing1883
stellar1883
gaudy1884
fizzing1885
réussi1885
ding-dong1887
jim-dandy1888
extra-special1889
yum-yum1890
out of sight1891
outasight1893
smooth1893
corking1895
large1895
super1895
hot dog1896
to die for1898
yummy1899
deevy1900
peachy1900
hi1901
v.g.1901
v.h.c.1901
divvy1903
doozy1903
game ball1905
goodo1905
bosker1906
crackerjack1910
smashinga1911
jake1914
keen1914
posh1914
bobby-dazzling1915
juicy1916
pie on1916
jakeloo1919
snodger1919
whizz-bang1920
wicked1920
four-star1921
wow1921
Rolls-Royce1922
whizz-bang1922
wizard1922
barry1923
nummy1923
ripe1923
shrieking1926
crazy1927
righteous1930
marvy1932
cool1933
plenty1933
brahmaa1935
smoking1934
solid1935
mellow1936
groovy1937
tough1937
bottler1938
fantastic1938
readyc1938
ridge1938
super-duper1938
extraordinaire1940
rumpty1940
sharp1940
dodger1941
grouse1941
perfecto1941
pipperoo1945
real gone1946
bosting1947
supersonic1947
whizzo1948
neato1951
peachy-keen1951
ridgey-dite1953
ridgy-didge1953
top1953
whizzing1953
badass1955
wild1955
belting1956
magic1956
bitching1957
swinging1958
ridiculous1959
a treat1959
fab1961
bad-assed1962
uptight1962
diggish1963
cracker1964
marv1964
radical1964
bakgat1965
unreal1965
pearly1966
together1968
safe1970
bad1971
brilliant1971
fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
bodacious1976
rad1976
kif1978
awesome1979
death1979
killer1979
fly1980
shiok1980
stonking1980
brill1981
dope1981
to die1982
mint1982
epic1983
kicking1983
fabbo1984
mega1985
ill1986
posho1989
pukka1991
lovely jubbly1992
awesomesauce2001
nang2002
bess2006
amazeballs2009
boasty2009
daebak2009
beaut2013
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iii. 119 ‘Tell 'em to play “Admiration”!’ shouted Sloane... ‘Phoebe and I are going to shake a wicked calf.’
1977 Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 8/2 He could, as I say, sidestep off either foot, but what sped him on was a wicked acceleration over 20 yards.
B. n.
In sense A. 1a: chiefly in biblical and religious use; often opposed to righteous n. 2a.† c. genitive in -s (singular or plural). Obsolete.
a. In plural sense: wicked persons. (Usually, now always, with the.) Also in phr. no peace for the wicked: see peace n. Phrases 6.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] > plural
wicked1393
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > wicked people
lithera1225
unjustc1384
wicked1393
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 430 Ther þat dom to þe deoþ dampneþ alle wyckede.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22999 Þe wikid þat dred noht his aw, Her doun þai sal be demed law.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 18279 Mony wickede & mis dedy Hastou lost.
c1400 Pety Job 271 in 26 Pol. Poems 129 Wycked and worse, good and bette, I wote well thow considerest alle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job iii. 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyranny.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. i. 17 God be praysed, which hath delyuered the wicked in to oure hondes.
1539 Bible (Great) Gen. xviii. 23 Wylt thou also destroy the rightwes wyth the wicked?
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 476 If sacke and sugar be a fault, God helpe the wicked . View more context for this quotation
1781 W. Cowper Charity 280 Prisons expect the wicked, and were built To bind the lawless.
b. In singular sense: a wicked person. Obsolete or rare (archaic): also in nonce-use with plural in -s.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun]
fiendc1220
shrewc1250
quedea1275
felon1340
malfeasorc1380
evil-doer1398
forfeiter1413
pucka1450
malefactor?c1450
wicked-doerc1450
improbe1484
wicked1484
Gomorrheana1529
dunghill1542
felonian1594
naughta1639
black sheep1640
pimp1649
hellicat1816
malfeasant1867
a bad sortc1869
bad seed1954
bloody1960
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person
warlockOE
shrewc1250
quedea1275
wick1297
felon1340
son of perditionc1384
nicec1400
pucka1450
sorrowc1450
improbe1484
wicked1484
naughtyc1580
stigmatic1597
thornback1599
stigmatist1607
naughta1639
dungeona1728
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. xii Ne none wycked may hurte another wycked.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. vi. 16 The shelde off Fayth, wherwith ye maye quenche all the fyrie dartes of the wicked [so 1611: R.V. of the evil one].
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Thess. ii. 8 That wicked..whom the lorde shall consume with the sprete off hys mouth.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. lv. 7 Let the wicked forsake his waies, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations.
1853 in Friendsh. Miss Mitford (1882) II. 115 Falling upon the tender mercies of two such wickeds as papa and she.
ΚΠ
1587 T. Hughes Misfort. Arthur (1900) v. i. 57 The wickeds death is safety to the iust.
1597 N. Breton Arbor Amorous Devices sig. Dv What is the world but wickeds way to hel?
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Davids Psalms Metaphr. vii. 9 in Wks. (1808) X. 267 Let mee the wicked's malice see Brought to an end.
d. That which is wicked.
ΚΠ
1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. v. 205 The wicked or diabolical goes in order to express the divine.
C. adv.
Wickedly; fiercely, savagely, furiously; ‘cruelly’, ‘terribly’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adverb]
foullyOE
ranklyOE
awly?c1225
wickc1330
deeplyc1384
cursedlyc1386
outrageouslya1387
wickeda1400
outragelya1425
heinouslyc1440
enormly1538
arrantly?1548
enormouslya1617
flagitiously1622
enormiouslya1641
flagrantly1756
atrociously1765
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb]
wrothec888
litherlyc1050
foulOE
sinfullyc1175
quedelya1250
amissc1275
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
wickedly1303
wickc1330
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
wickeda1400
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
naughtly1575
unsela1583
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
queerly1699
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively
cruellyc1385
overa1400
fullc1400
parlouslyc1425
mortalc1440
perilousc1440
spitefulc1450
devilish1560
pestilently1567
spitefully1567
cruel1573
parlous1575
deadly1589
intolerable?1593
fellc1600
perditlya1632
excessively1634
devilishly1635
desperate1636
woundya1639
woundlya1644
desperately1653
wicked1663
killing1672
woundily1706
wounded1753
mortally1759
dreadful1762
intolerably1768
perishing1776
tremendously1776
terrifically1777
diabolically1792
woundedly1794
thundering1809
all-firedly1833
preponderously1835
painfully1839
deadlilya1843
severely1854
furiously1856
diabolish1858
fiendish1861
demonish1867
sinfully1869
fiendishly1879
thunderingly1885
only too1889
nightmarishly1891
God almighty1906
Christ almighty1945
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 15840 Whil þei þus him handeled: wicked as þei mouȝt.
1663 T. Porter Witty Combat iv. i. sig. D4 Yesterday was..a wicked hot day.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. i. 8 A hungry louse bites wicked sair.
1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah (1850) v. 45 He came towards me with his hatchet in his hand. I saw that he was determined to act wicked.
1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers ix They was fightin' very wicked an' nasty.
Compounds
C1. Complementary and parasynthetic.
wicked-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1823 Ld. Byron Island ii. xxi. 44 She seemed a wicked-looking craft.
wicked-tongued adj.
ΚΠ
a1380 St. Aug. 945 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 77 Wikked-tonged men Wolde speke vuel of hem.
C2. † wicked-doing n. Obsolete = evil-doing n.† wicked-walking n. Obsolete that ‘walks wickedly’ (cf. Psalm xxvi. 1).
wicked-doer n. = evil-doer n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun]
fiendc1220
shrewc1250
quedea1275
felon1340
malfeasorc1380
evil-doer1398
forfeiter1413
pucka1450
malefactor?c1450
wicked-doerc1450
improbe1484
wicked1484
Gomorrheana1529
dunghill1542
felonian1594
naughta1639
black sheep1640
pimp1649
hellicat1816
malfeasant1867
a bad sortc1869
bad seed1954
bloody1960
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > evil-doer
scatheOE
misdoera1325
malfeasorc1380
evil-doer1398
forfeiter1413
wrongerc1449
malefactor?c1450
wicked-doerc1450
wrongdoerc1450
felonian1594
hellcat1603
commissioner1651
misactor1659
malfeasant1867
c1450 Mirk's Festial 1 Forto deme all wikytdoers ynto þe pyt of hell.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil action > [noun]
wonder1154
wickednessa1300
perpetrationc1429
maleficence1533
wicked-doing1535
malefaction1604
perpetrating1615
malefacture1635
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun]
sinc825
naughteOE
unnuteOE
sinningc1000
unrightOE
un-i-selthlOE
wonder1154
misguiltc1200
misdoinga1225
teeninga1225
miss?c1225
crimec1250
misdeed?c1250
wickednessa1300
mischiefa1387
evil-doing1398
mistakinga1400
perpetrationc1429
wrongingc1449
maledictionc1475
maleficence1533
wicked-doing1535
foul play1546
misdealing1571
flagition1598
delinquency1603
malefaction1604
meschancy1609
malefacture1635
misacting1651
guilt1726
flagitiosity1727
malpractice1739
malfeasance1856
peccation1861
miscreance1972
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxxvii. 23 With their..Idols and all their wicked-doinges.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective] > following
wicked-walking1608
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > evil-living
misliving1423
misliveda1425
ill vivandc1460
evil-belived1557
wicked-walking1608
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 119 The traytor Manahem's wicked walking Son.
wicked will n. = ill will n.
ΚΠ
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 114 Þou sselt uoryeue þine wyckede wil and keste out of þine herte alle wreþe.
wicked-worded adj. as euphemism for ‘damned’.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxxii He..wished he might be wicked-worded if he didn't.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
wrothec888
unrighteouslyeOE
foullyOE
naughtlyOE
wrothlyc1200
litherlya1225
unwraste?c1225
illc1275
vilelyc1290
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
unwrastlyc1320
viciouslya1325
diverselyc1325
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
badlyc1405
foula1425
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
noughtily1528
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
illy1549
naught1549
bad1575
evilly1581
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
piggishly1756
iniquitously1796
pervertedly1804
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb]
wrothec888
litherlyc1050
foulOE
sinfullyc1175
quedelya1250
amissc1275
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
wickedly1303
wickc1330
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
wickeda1400
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
naughtly1575
unsela1583
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
queerly1699
c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 104 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 66 Wikit women, þou..has consawit giltfully, and consalite þe fend wikitfully.
wickedish adj. [-ish suffix1 3] somewhat wicked.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective] > somewhat
wickedish1853
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] > somewhat wicked
wickedish1853
1853 C. Reade Christie Johnstone i His master replied with..a quiet, but wickedish look.
wickedlek n. [-laik suffix]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun]
woughc888
naughteOE
manOE
evilness1000
fakenOE
witherfulnessc1200
lithera1225
villainy?c1225
lithernessa1240
unwrastshipa1250
felonyc1290
shrewheadc1290
litherhead1297
illa1300
wicknessa1300
follyc1300
iniquity13..
shrewdom13..
wickhedec1305
shrewdheadc1315
shrewdnessc1315
unwrastnessc1315
wickednessa1340
malicea1382
unequityc1384
lewdnessa1387
mischiefa1387
wickedleka1400
wickedredea1400
badnessc1400
shrewdshipc1400
shrewnessc1425
ungoodlihead1430
wickdomc1440
rudenessc1451
mauvasty1474
unkindliness1488
noughtinessa1500
perversenessa1500
illnessc1500
filthiness?1504
noisomeness1506
naughtiness?1529
noughtihoodc1540
inexcellence1590
improbity1593
flagition1598
meschancy1609
scelerateness1613
pravity1620
meschantnessa1630
flagitiousness1692
flagitiosity1727
nefariousness1727
bale-fire1855
ill-conditionedness1866
iniquitousness1870
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun]
woughc888
manOE
evilness1000
evilc1040
un-i-thora1200
witherfulnessc1200
mixshipc1225
quedeship?c1225
lithernessa1240
unwrastshipa1250
felonyc1290
shrewheadc1290
litherhead1297
wickedheada1300
wicknessa1300
follyc1300
shrewdom13..
wickhedec1305
shrewdheadc1315
shrewdnessc1315
unwrastnessc1315
wickc1330
wickednessa1340
quedehead1340
quedeness1340
lewdnessa1387
felona1400
wickedleka1400
wickedredea1400
badnessc1400
shrewdshipc1400
shrewnessc1425
wickdomc1440
noughtinessa1500
naughtiness?1529
sinfulness1530
noughtihoodc1540
meschancy1609
scelerateness1613
meschantnessa1630
nefariousness1727
devilness1853
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS 478 Ȝif we haue wille to wikkedlek.
wicked-like adj. [-like suffix]
ΚΠ
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 23 So wickit like, and als so venemois.
a1871 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 100 It made a book look wicked-like to have a feigned place of printing.
† †wickedrede n. [-red suffix] Obsolete wickedness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun]
woughc888
naughteOE
manOE
evilness1000
fakenOE
witherfulnessc1200
lithera1225
villainy?c1225
lithernessa1240
unwrastshipa1250
felonyc1290
shrewheadc1290
litherhead1297
illa1300
wicknessa1300
follyc1300
iniquity13..
shrewdom13..
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unwrastnessc1315
wickednessa1340
malicea1382
unequityc1384
lewdnessa1387
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wickedleka1400
wickedredea1400
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mauvasty1474
unkindliness1488
noughtinessa1500
perversenessa1500
illnessc1500
filthiness?1504
noisomeness1506
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flagition1598
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun]
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manOE
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litherhead1297
wickedheada1300
wicknessa1300
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wickedleka1400
wickedredea1400
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wickdomc1440
noughtinessa1500
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sinfulness1530
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devilness1853
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1227 (MED) Þai wraþet him wiþ wikked rede.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
wickedadj.2
/wɪkt/, U.S. /wɪkt/ Furnished with or having a wick or wicks; usually in combination, as broad-wicked, two-wicked.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [adjective] > having a wick
wicked1507
cotton-wicked1707
1507 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 437 That ale candil makaris has candile reddy to sele.., small weikit and dry.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 518/1 The broad-wicked lamp seems to have the advantage.
1899 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. I. iv. 143 Their fathers had..sold dried herring or ‘wicked candles’.
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adj.1n.adv.c1275
adj.21507- edge connector
- edge dislocation
- edge grindstone
- edge in
- edge key
- edge nailing
- edge of regression
- edge plane
- edge the teeth
- edge well
- edge-coals
- edge-cutting
- edge-gilt
- edge-growth
- edge-hummock
- edge-joint
- edge-laid
- edge-leam
- edge-lome
- edge-metal
- edge-mill
- edge-milling
- edge-moulding
- edge-of-seat
- edge-of-the-seat