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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered, mean |
| Synonyms: | abusive, annoying, beastly, critical, cruel, despicable, disagreeable, distasteful, evil, fierce, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, ornery, ruthless, sarcastic, sordid, spiteful, squalid, unkind, unpleasant, vicious, vile, wicked |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, happy, kind, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | outrageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | abominable, atrocious, barbaric, beastly, brazen, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, criminal, debasing, debauching, degenerate, depraving, disgraceful, disgracing, egregious, flagitious, flagrant, gross, heinous, horrendous, horrible, ignoble, infamous, inhuman, iniquitous, malevolent, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, odious, opprobrious, scandalous, scurrilous, shameless, shaming, shocking, sinful, unbearable, ungodly, unspeakable, villainous, violent, wanton, wicked |
| Antonyms: | delightful, good, magnificent, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | savage |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, vicious |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, crazed, demoniac, destructive, devilish, diabolical, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frantic, furious, grim, harsh, heartless, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, malicious, merciless, murderous, pitiless, rabid, raging, rapacious, ravening, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, unrelenting, violent, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | benign, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | terrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous, disturbing, dread, dreaded, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, petrifying, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, severe, shocking, unfortunate, unnerving, unpleasant, unwelcome, vile |
| Antonyms: | good, great, nice, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ugly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unattractive |
| Synonyms: | animal, appalling, awful, bad-looking, beastly, deformed, disfigured, foul, frightful, grisly, gross, grotesque, hard-featured, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, loathsome, misshapen, monstrous, not much to look at, plain, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unbeautiful, uncomely, uninviting, unlovely, unprepossessing, unseemly, unsightly |
| Antonyms: | attractive, beautiful, lovely, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | unattractive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ugly |
| Synonyms: | bad-looking, beastly, deformed, disfigured, disgusting, frightful, gross, grotesque, hideous, homely, horrid, monstrous, not much to look at, plain, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unalluring, unappealing, unsightly |
| Main Entry: | unspeakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; beyond description |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, beastly, beyond words, calamitous, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, fearful, frightening, frightful, heinous, horrible, horrid, incommunicable, inconceivable, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, inhuman, loathsome, monstrous, nameless, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, overwhelming, preternatural, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unbelievable, unimaginable, unutterable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | vicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hateful |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, beastly, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, cussed, defamatory, despiteful, dirty*, evil, fierce, frightful, furious, horrid, intense, lousy*, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, murderous, ornery*, poisonous, rancorous, rough, savage, slanderous, spiteful, tough, vehement, venomous, vindictive, violent, wicked |
| Notes: | vicious is savage or cruel; viscous is thick or gummy, as a liquid that is hard to pour |
| Antonyms: | friendly, kind, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | yucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, crappy*, creepy, cruddy, crummy, detestable, distasteful, foul, funky*, grody, gross, gruesome, hideous, icky, loathsome, lousy, nasty, nauseating, odious, offensive, raunchy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scuzzy, sickening, skanky, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, yecchy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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