NEFARIOUS DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
nefarious adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous] nefarious 1604, from L. nefarius "wicked, abominable," from nefas "crime, wrong, impiety," from ne- "not" + fas "right, lawful, divinely spoken," related to fari "to speak." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) nefarious adjective Etymology: Latin nefarius, from nefas crime, from ne- not + fas right, divine law; perhaps akin to Greek themis law, tithenai to place — more at do Date: circa 1609 flagrantly wicked or impious ; evil Synonyms: see vicious • nefariously adverb Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary nefarious If you describe an activity as nefarious, you mean that it is wicked and immoral. (LITERARY) Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose? ADJ: usu ADJ n English Explanatory Dictionary nefarious nɪˈfɛərɪəs adj. wicked; iniquitous. øønefariously adv. nefariousness n. [L nefarius f. nefas wrong f. ne- not + fas divine law] English-Old English dictionary nefarious Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Nefarious \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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms nefarious a. Abominable, atrocious, detestable, execrable, iniquitous, scandalous, wicked, infamous, villanous, heinous, flagitious, very wicked, horrible, dreadful, vile. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 125 Moby Thesaurus words for "nefarious": 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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