vicious

Pronunciation: ['viʃәs]

Average Rank: 10348

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

a. 邪恶的, 堕落的, 品性不端的, 恶毒的, 恶性的, 有错误的 [医] 缺点的, 恶的

Detailed Explanations:
  • s (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  • s having the nature of vice
  • s bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
  • s marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE
Exam Tags: cet6 ky ielts gre

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#4708

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 52.9% (Top 52.9% most frequent)
52.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#6337

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 36.6% (Top 36.6% most frequent)
36.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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