 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heinous
adjective: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime";
"a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous
crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to
commit" [syn: {atrocious}, {flagitious}, {grievous}, {monstrous}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heinous \Hei"nous\ (h[=a]"n[u^]s), adjective [OF. ha["i]nos hateful, F.
haineux, fr. OF. ha["i]ne hate, F. haine, fr. ha["i]r to
hate; of German origin. See {Hate}.]
Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving
great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. --Hooker.
How heinous had the fact been, how deserving
Contempt! --Milton.
Syn: Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious. --
{Hei"nous*ly}, adverb -- {Hei"nous*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "heinous":
abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base,
beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black,
blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, criminal,
crude, crummy, crying, damnable, dark, debased, degraded,
deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, dire,
dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous,
evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding,
foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, horrible, horrid,
ignoble, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable,
little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy,
mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous,
nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious,
objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous,
paltry, peccant, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank,
rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate,
reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scabby,
scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby,
shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, sordid,
squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unforgivable,
unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile,
villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong
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