villain
Plural: villains
Noun
- A cruelly malicious person, or the antagonist in a story.
- a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
- the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction
- A vile, wicked person.
- A vile, wicked person.
- An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
- A vile, wicked person.
- A deliberate scoundrel.
- A low-born, abject person.
- A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.
- Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero (“the current player”).
- Archaic form of villein (“feudal tenant, peasant, serf”).
Verb
- To debase; to degrade .
Examples
- Let's discuss how to play if you are the chip leader (that is, if you have more chips than all the villains).
- The villain of the Scrabble match always hoarded the ’S’ tiles.
Origin / Etymology
Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin vīllānus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin vīlla, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. Doublet of villein.
Synonyms
baddie, scoundrel, antagonist, antimodel, bad guy, bastard, blackguard, bounder, cad, coistril, evildoer, fustilarian, harlot, heavy, knave, lidderon, makeshift, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, niding, nithing, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scab, scamp, scapegrace, scum, scumbag, thug, undesirable, varlet, villain
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
villain: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvillain: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
villain: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary