EGAVE

heinous

About 0.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Totally reprehensible.
    I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.
  2. adjective Bad, evil or villainous.
  3. adjective ↑ Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 131 (b), page 650.
  4. adjective ↑ Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218)‎, The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 233, page 213.
  5. adjective ↑ Luick, Karl (1929-1940), Herbert Wild, Friedrich Koziol, editors, Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache‎, Erster Band, II. Abteilung, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1940, →OCLC, § 516, page 634.

Similar words

atrocious evil monstrous flagitious grievous wicked loathsome detestable repugnant deplorable

Often followed by

crime crimes sin and offence of than offences nature

Word family

heinously heinousness heinousnesses

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