nefarious
Adjective Satellite
- extremely wicked
- "nefarious schemes"
Adj
- Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
Examples
- Aliens have a nefarious connotation in many science fiction books.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin nefārius (“execrable, abominable”), from nefās (“something contrary to divine law, an impious deed, sin, crime”), from ne- (“not”) + fās (“the dictates of religion, divine law”), which is related to Latin for (“I speak, I say”) and cognate to Ancient Greek φημί (phēmí, “I say”).
Synonyms
villainous, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, dark, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, flagitious, good-for-nothing, harmful, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, underhanded, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, wicked, wrong
Scrabble Score: 12
nefarious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnefarious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nefarious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary