wicked
Adjective
- Evil or morally wrong; also, excellent or impressive.
- morally bad in principle or practice
Adjective Satellite
- having committed unrighteous acts
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"
- "a wicked cough"
- naughtily or annoyingly playful
- "a wicked prank"
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- "a wicked stench"
Adj
- Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
- Harsh; severe.
- Excellent; awesome; masterful.
- Having a wick.
- Active; brisk.
- Infested with maggots.
- Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.
Adv
- To a superlative extent, very, extremely
Verb
- simple past and past participle of wick
Examples
- a two-wicked lamp
- Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.
- I didn't really wanna go see On Golden Pond with the fam, but my mom made me go, and I must say that in retrospect it was a wicked expressive film, with a lot of significant meaning.
- That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!
- That was a WICKED play, blocking my potential bingo while opening yours!
- The band we went to see the other night was pissah, and they were wicked loud!
- wicked wind
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak.
The "excellent, awesome" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "evil, mischievous". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and sick.
Synonyms
arch, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, impish, implike, loathly, loathsome, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, severe, sinful, skanky, terrible, unholy, yucky, abandoned, absolutely, abundantly, ace, admirable, all too, arrant, awe-inspiring, awesome, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, bang on, bang-up, base, based, beneship, bitching, bomb, brilliant, bully, but good, cher, choice, chronic, chur, cock on, completely, cool, copacetic, crackerjack, cushty, dank, dark, def, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, dope, eminently, ever so, evil, exceedingly, excellent, exceptional, excessively, extremely, fab, fabulous, fantabulosa, fantastic, far out, finger-lickin' good, fireball, first-rate, flagitious, fly, frabjous, gnarly, great, greatly, groovy, grouse, harmful, highly, hot, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, in spades, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, kicking, killer, knavish, lash, lautitious, lit, main, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, marvelous, mightily, murrain, nang, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, out of sight, outstanding, passing, peccaminous, peng, pernicious, phat, phenomenal, positively, pretty, pukka, quality, quite, rad, radical, reprehensible, reprobate, right, rum, satanic, scathful, sick, simply, sinister, slap-up, slick, sordid, sore, specially, spiffing, splendid, sterling, strongly, sullen, super, superb, superior, sweet, swell, swith, terrific, tight, top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, top-of-the-range, top-shelf, topping, truly, tubular, twisted, ungodly, vastly, very, very much, vicious, vile, villainous, way, way too, wicked, wicked pissah, wonderful, worldie, wrong
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 16
wicked: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwicked: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wicked: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary