7 definitions found for villainous

villainous adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous]

villainous
adj.
1 characteristic of a villain; wicked.
2 colloq. abominably bad; vile (villainous weather).
Derivatives:
villainously adv. villainousness n.

villainous A villainous person is very bad and willing to harm other people or break the law in order to get what he or she wants. ...her villainous father. ADJ: usu ADJ n

villainous ˈvɪlənəs adj. 1 characteristic of a villain; wicked. 2 colloq. abominably bad; vile (villainous weather). øøvillainously adv. villainousness n.

Villainous Vil"lain*ous, a. [Written also villanous.] 1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. ``A villainous trick of thine eye.'' --Shak. Villainous judgment (O. E. Law), a judgment that casts reproach on the guilty person. --- Vil"lain*ous*ly, adv. Vil"lain*ous*ness, n.

villainous ˈvɪlənəs adj. 1 treacherous, perfidious, dishonest, unscrupulous, traitorous, corrupt, faithless, criminal, felonious, murderous, Colloq crooked, bent: Few activities are more villainous than being a double agent. 2 See vile, 1, above.

121 Moby Thesaurus words for "villainous": abandoned, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, contrary, corrupt, criminal, crooked, damnable, dark, debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest, dissolute, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, faithless, felonious, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted, pitiable, pitiful, profligate, putrid, rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten, sad, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible, too bad, traitorous, treacherous, unclean, unforgivable, unpardonable, unscrupulous, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong