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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpleasant, disagreeable |
| Synonyms: | base, despicable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, filthy, foul, frightful, hideous, horrid, ignoble, low, low-down, mean, messy, monstrous, nasty, nauseous, noisome, objectionable, odious, offensive, pesky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, servile, shocking, sickening, sordid, sorry, terrible, troublesome, troublous, vexatious, vile, wicked, wretched |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, good, kind, nice, pleasant, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | villainous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bad, corrupt, crooked, cruel, culpable, deplorable, depraved, diabolical, dirty, evil, felonious, hateful, ignoble, illegal, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, knavish, lawless, low, mean, nefarious, peccant, reprehensible, scandalous, shady*, sinful, unlawful, vile, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wicked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, bad |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abominable, amoral, arch, atrocious, bad news, base, contemptible, debased, degenerate, depraved, devilish, dissolute, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, gross, guilty, heartless, heinous, immoral, impious, impish, incorrigible, indecent, iniquitous, irreligious, low-down, mean, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, profane, reprobate, rotten, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, unethical, unprincipled, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villainous, wayward, worthless |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | horrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fairy, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrid, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, sickie, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind |
| Notes: | in decreasing degree of horror: horrific, horrendous, horrible, horrid |
| Antonyms: | pleasant |
| Main Entry: | scabrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improper |
| Synonyms: | immodest, indecent, indiscreet, licentious, obscene, risque, scandalous, shocking, unconventional |
| Main Entry: | flagitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, criminal, flagrant, heinous, infamous, rotten, scandalous, vicious, villainous, wicked |
| Main Entry: | unmentionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unspeakable |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, disgraceful, forbidden, impermissible, off-limits, offensive, out of bounds, scandalous, shameful, taboo |
| Antonyms: | mentionable, permissible |
| Main Entry: | calumnious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanderous |
| Synonyms: | calumniatory, defamatory, injurious, libelous, scandalous |
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| Concept: | Base. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
| Synonyms: |
-adjectives
bottom, undermost, nethermost; fundamental; founded on, based on, grounded on, built on.
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| Antonyms: | summit |
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