EGAVE

wicked

About 6.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
    Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.
  2. adjective Harsh; severe.
    wicked wind
  3. adjective Excellent; awesome; masterful; exceptional.
    That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!
  4. adverb To a superlative extent, very, extremely
    I didn't really wanna go see On Golden Pond with the fam, but my mom made me go, and I must say that in retrospect it was a wicked expressive film, with a lot of significant meaning.
  5. noun Wicked (evil) people collectively.
  6. verb simple past and past participle of wick
  7. adjective Having a wick.
    a two-wicked lamp
  8. adjective Active; brisk.

Similar words

diabolical villainous nefarious flagitious depraved evil-minded evil sinister sinful perversive

Often followed by

and men man to as one are world in

Word family

wickeder wickedest wickedly

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