Meaning of NEFARIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | ni'fehreeus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" |
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| | Synonyms: | | villainous, wicked |
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| | Definition: | | \Ne*fa"ri*ous\, a. [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime,
wrong; ne not + fas divine law; akin to fari to speak. See
{No}, adv., and {Fate}.]
Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously
villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Syn: Iniquitous; detestable; horrible; heinious; atrocious;
infamous; impious. See {Iniquitous}. --
{Ne*fa"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, corrupt, criminal, crummy, damnable, dark, debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, glaring, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miscreant, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, peccant, perverse, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, putrid, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, small, sordid, squalid, terrible, too bad, unclean, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong |
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