Synonyms and Antonyms of vicious
1
extreme in degree, power, or effect
- a vicious winter storm ripped through the region
acute, almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, exquisite, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, hellacious, intense, intensive, keen, profound, terrible, vehement, violent
accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepened
emphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified
stressed
exhaustive, thorough
harsh, rigorous, severe
feeble, weak
shallow, superficial
moderated, qualified
alleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down)
abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued
2
having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others
- she made a vicious effort to destroy the lives of the people who had wronged her
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, brute, butcherly, cruel, fiendish, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, sadistic, savage, truculent, wanton
hard-hearted, ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted, unfeeling
fell, ferocious, grim
bloodthirsty, cutthroat, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
catty, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vindictive
draconian, draconic, hardhanded, harsh, heavy-handed, oppressive
3
not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable
- a truly vicious person detested by almost everyone
bad, black, dark, evil, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, rotten, sinful, unethical, unlawful, unrighteous, unsavory, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong
base, contemptible, despicable, dirty, disreputable, evil-minded, ignoble, ill, infernal, low, mean, snide, sordid
atrocious, cruel, infamous, nasty
blamable, blameworthy, censurable, objectionable,
