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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched]
2: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (viler; vilest) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vil, from Latin vilis Date: 14th century 1. a. morally despicable or abhorrent <nothing is so vile as intellectual dishonesty> b. physically repulsive ; foul <a vile slum> 2. of little worth or account ; common; also mean 3. tending to degrade <vile employments> 4. disgustingly or utterly bad ; obnoxious, contemptible <vile weather> <had a vile temper> Synonyms: see base • vilely adverb • vileness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 disgusting. 2 morally base; depraved, shameful. 3 colloq. abominably bad (vile weather). 4 archaic worthless. Derivatives: vilely adv. vileness n. Etymology: ME f. OF vil vile f. L vilis cheap, base

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vile Vile, a. [Comp. Viler; superl. Vilest.] [OE. vil, F. vil, from L. vilis cheap, worthless, vile, base.] 1. Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable. A poor man in vile raiment. --James ii. 2. The craft either of fishing, which was Peter's, or of making tents, which was Paul's, were [was] more vile than the science of physic. --Ridley. The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing. --Abp. Abbot. 2. Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad. ``Such vile base practices.'' --Shak. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ? --Job xl. 4. Syn: See Base. -- Vile"ly, adv. -- Vile"ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(viler, vilest) If you say that someone or something is vile, you mean that they are very unpleasant. She was in too vile a mood to work. = foul ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Base, mean, low, despicable, paltry, contemptible, beggarly, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, abject, scurvy, shabby, sorry. 2. Sinful, wicked, bad, base, impure, vicious, iniquitous. 3. Worthless, of poor quality, linsey-woolsey, cheap, valueless, mean, sorry, miserable, wretched.

Moby Thesaurus

Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, abusive, amoral, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, base-minded, bawdy, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, blue, brackish, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious, cheap, cheesy, cloying, coarse, comminatory, common, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crude, crummy, cursing, damnable, damnatory, dark, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, degrading, denunciatory, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, dysphemistic, egregious, enormous, epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fecal, feculent, fetid, fiendish, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulminatory, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gaudy, gimcracky, gloppy, grave, graveolent, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, hellish, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, ignominious, ill-smelling, immoral, imprecatory, improper, impure, infamous, iniquitous, ithyphallic, knavish, lamentable, lewd, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, lurid, maggoty, maledictory, malodorous, mangy, mawkish, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, mucky, musty, nasty, naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, paltry, pathetic, peccant, perverted, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, poky, poor, pornographic, profane, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, rascally, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, recreant, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, risque, roguish, rotten, rubbishy, sad, salacious, scabby, scampish, scandalous, scatologic, schlock, scoundrelly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, scuzzy, servile, shabby, shameful, shameless, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking-room, smutty, sordid, sorry, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, sultry, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, ugly, unchaste, unclean, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable, unprintable, unrepeatable, unspeakable, unworthy, valueless, vicious, villainous, vituperative, vomity, vulgar, weevily, wicked, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky