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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, obnoxious |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, accursed, awful, bitter, blasted, catty, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, despicable, despiteful, detestable, disgusting, evil, execrable, forbidding, foul, gross, heinous, horrid, infamous, invidious, loathsome, malevolent, malign, mean, odious, offensive, ornery*, pesky, pestiferous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, resentful, revolting, shuddersome, spiteful, uncool, undesirable, vicious, vile |
| Antonyms: | friendly, kind, likable, lovable, nice, pleasant, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, cruel |
| Synonyms: | aching, afflictive, bad, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, distressing, evil, harmful, hurting, malicious, mean, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, spiteful, unkind, upsetting, wounding |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, harmless, helpful, helping, kind, nice, relieving |
| Main Entry: | inauspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, unpromising |
| Synonyms: | bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, favorable, fortunate, lucky, promising |
| Main Entry: | infamous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameful, bad in reputation |
| Synonyms: | abominable, atrocious, base, caitiff, contemptible, corrupt, degenerate, despicable, detestable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, egregious, evil, flagitious, foul, hateful, heinous, ignominious, ill-famed, iniquitous, loathsome, miscreant, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, perverse, questionable, rotten, scandalous, scurvy, shady, shocking, sorry, unhealthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked |
| Notes: | famous means widely known, renowned, and esteemed while infamous means having an exceedingly bad reputation, notorious |
| Antonyms: | dignified, glorious, good, innocent, moral, perfect, principled, pure, respectable, righteous, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | injurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, adverse, bad, baneful, corrupting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, iniquitous, insulting, libeling, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noxious, opprobrious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, slanderous, unconducive, unhealthy, unjust, wrongful |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, beneficial, constructive, curing, fixing, good, healing, helpful, mending, nice |
| Main Entry: | lawless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, ungoverned |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, bad, barbarous, chaotic, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly, evil, fierce, heterodox, infringing, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, nihilistic, noncompliant, nonconformist, piratical, rebellious, recusant, revolutionary, riotous, savage, seditious, tempestuous, terrorizing, traitorous, turbulent, tyrannous, uncivilized, uncultivated, unorthodox, unpeaceful, unrestrained, unruly, untamed, violent, warlike, wild |
| Antonyms: | governed, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, proper, rightful, valid |
| Main Entry: | malevolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | bad-natured, baleful, catty, despiteful, dirty, evil, evil-minded, hellish, hostile, lousy, malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous, pernicious, poison, rancorous, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked |
| Notes: | while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious usually means petty and spiteful |
| Antonyms: | amiable, harmless, kind, liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | malicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | awful, bad-natured, baleful, beastly, bitter, catty, cussed, deleterious, despiteful, detrimental, envious, evil, evil-minded, green*, green-eyed, gross*, ill-disposed, injurious, jealous, low, malevolent, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, nasty, noxious, ornery, pernicious, petty, poisonous, rancorous, resentful, spiteful, uncool, vengeful, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked |
| Notes: | while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious usually means petty and spiteful |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, friendly, good, kind, likeable, sympathetic, thoughtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, injurious |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, antipathetic, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hateful, hostile, inimical, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malignant, noxious, pernicious, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked |
| Antonyms: | aiding, benign, helpful, nice |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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