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villainous - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: villainous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: criminal
Synonyms: atrocious, bad, corrupt, crooked, cruel, culpable, deplorable, depraved, diabolical, dirty, evil, felonious, hateful, ignoble, illegal, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, knavish, lawless, low, mean, nefarious, peccant, reprehensible, scandalous, shady*, sinful, unlawful, vile, wicked
Main Entry: criminal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lawless, felonious
Synonyms: bent, caught, corrupt, crooked, culpable, deplorable, dirty, heavy, hung up*, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, off base*, peccant, racket, scandalous, senseless, shady*, smoking gun*, unlawful, vicious, villainous, wicked, wildcat*, wrong, indictable, out of line, unrighteous
Antonyms: correct, lawful, legal, moral, right, righteous
Main Entry: degenerate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: corrupt, deteriorated
Synonyms: base, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, failing, fallen, immoral, infamous, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, retrograde, rotten, sinking, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, wicked, worsen, degenerated, demeaned, flatitious, overripe, retrogressive, vitiated
Notes: to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality
Antonyms: moral, upright, virtuous
Main Entry: depraved
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: corrupt, immoral
Synonyms: abandoned, bad, base, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dirty*, dissolute, evil, fast*, filthy*, kinky*, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, profligate, putrid, rotten, shameless, sinful, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, wanton, wicked, dirty-minded, flagitous, gone to the dogs, vitiated, warped
Antonyms: good, honorable, just, moral, noble, pure, upright, virtuous, uncorrupt
Main Entry: devilish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wicked
Synonyms: accursed, atrocious, bad, cursed, damnable, demonic, detestable, diabolic, diabolical, evil, execrable, fiendish, hellish, infernal, inhuman, iniquitous, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, villainous, Mephistophelian, brutish, cloven-footed, demoniac, hellborn
Antonyms: angelic, godlike, good, moral
Main Entry: diabolic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evil, fiendish
Synonyms: atrocious, cruel, damnable, demonic, devilish, hellish, impious, infernal, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, shocking, unhallowed, unpleasant, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, Mephistophelian, demoniac
Antonyms: gentle, kind, moral, nice
Main Entry: dishonest
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lying, untruthful
Synonyms: backbiting*, bent, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaky, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, guileful, hoodwinking, sneaking, swindling
Antonyms: aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful, principled
Main Entry: felonious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: criminal
Synonyms: base, corrupt, evil, illegal, illicit, lawbreaking, villainous, wrongful
Main Entry: grievous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: severe, painful; serious
Synonyms: agonizing, appalling, atrocious, calamitous, damaging, deplorable, dire, dismal, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, grave, harmful, heavy*, heinous, hurtful, injurious, intolerable, lamentable, monstrous, mournful, offensive, onerous, oppressive, outrageous, pathetic, pitiful, sad, shameful, sharp, shocking, sorrowful, taxing, tough, tragic, troublesome, unbearable, villainous, weighty*, afflicting, heart-rending, upsetting, wounding
Antonyms: good, harmless, pleasant
Main Entry: heinous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying, monstrous
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, crying, cursed, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, frightful, grave, gross*, hateful, hideous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive, outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking*, unspeakable, vicious, villainous, godawful, horrendous
Antonyms: glorious, good, lovely, magnificent, wonderful
Main Entry: immoral
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evil, degenerate
Synonyms: X-rated*, abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dishonest, dissipated, dissolute, fast*, graceless, impure, indecent, iniquitous, lewd, licentious, loose*, nefarious, obscene, pornographic, profligate, rakish, reprobate, shameless, sinful, speedy, unclean*, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, of easy virtue, saturnalian, unchaste
Antonyms: chaste, good, moral, noble, pure, right, virtuous, uncorrupt
Main Entry: miscreant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evil, immoral
Synonyms: corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, perverse, reprehensible, reprobate, unhealthy, unprincipled, vicious, villainous, wicked, rascally
Antonyms: good, moral, nice
Main Entry: atrocious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: outrageous; widely condemned
Synonyms: awful, bad, barbaric, beastly, desperate, diabolical, fiendish, flagrant, gross*, hairy*, heinous, lousy, monstrous, nefarious, rotten, scandalous, shocking, villainous, wicked, godawful, grody
Main Entry: cursed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: damned, doomed for bad ending
Synonyms: accursed, blessed, confounded, excommunicate, execrable, fey, ill-fated, infernal, star-crossed, unholy, villainous, bedeviled, blankety-blank, blasted, blighted, cast out, doggone*, foredoomed, hell fire, snakebit, unsanctified, voodooed
Antonyms: blessed
Main Entry: monstrous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unnatural, shocking
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, atrocious, cruel, desperate, devilish, diabolical, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, freakish, frightful, grotesque, gruesome, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrible, infamous, inhuman, intolerable, loathsome, macabre, morbid, obscene, odious, ominous, outrageous, preposterous, rank, satanic, scandalous, terrible, uncanny, unusual, vicious, villainous, horrendous, horrifying, miscreated, teratoid
Antonyms: average, common, expected, natural, ordinary, standard
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