vicious

/vˈɪʃəs/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
   “a barbarous crime”
2. having the nature of vice
3. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
   “a criminal waste of talent”
4. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
   “poisonous hate”

Synonyms for vicious

• barbarous
• brutal
• cruel
• fell
• roughshod
• savage
• inhumane
• evil
• wicked
• condemnable
• criminal
• deplorable
• reprehensible
• wrong
• poisonous
• venomous
• malicious

Words that rhyme with vicious

• delicious
• ambitious
• capricious
• fictitious
• lubricious
• pernicious
• seditious
• surreptitious
• suspicious
• auspicious
• expeditious
• factitious
• injudicious
• judicious
• malicious
• nutritious
• overambitious
• propitious
• repetitious
• superstitious