4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

vile

adjective

1: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them" [syn: {despicable}, {ugly}, {unworthy}]

2: thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having" [syn: {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}]

3: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: {nauseating}, {nauseous}, {noisome}, {loathsome}, {offensive}, {sickening}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Vile \Vile\, adjective [Comp. {Viler}; superl. {Vilest}.] [OE. vil, F. vil, from L. vilis cheap, worthless, vile, base.]

1. Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.

A poor man in vile raiment. --James ii. 2.

The craft either of fishing, which was Peter's, or of making tents, which was Paul's, were [was] more vile than the science of physic. --Ridley.

The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing. --Abp. Abbot.

2. Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad. ''Such vile base practices.'' --Shak.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ? --Job xl. 4.

Syn: See {Base}. -- {Vile"ly}, adverb -- {Vile"ness}, noun

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

288 Moby Thesaurus words for "vile": Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, abusive, amoral, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, base-minded, bawdy, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, blue, brackish, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious, cheap, cheesy, cloying, coarse, comminatory, common, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crude, crummy, cursing, damnable, damnatory, dark, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, degrading, denunciatory, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, dysphemistic, egregious, enormous, epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fecal, feculent, fetid, fiendish, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulminatory, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gaudy, gimcracky, gloppy, grave, graveolent, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, hellish, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, ignominious, ill-smelling, immoral, imprecatory, improper, impure, infamous, iniquitous, ithyphallic, knavish, lamentable, lewd, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, lurid, maggoty, maledictory, malodorous, mangy, mawkish, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, mucky, musty, nasty, naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, paltry, pathetic, peccant, perverted, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, poky, poor, pornographic, profane, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, rascally, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, recreant, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, risque, roguish, rotten, rubbishy, sad, salacious, scabby, scampish, scandalous, scatologic, schlock, scoundrelly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, scuzzy, servile, shabby, shameful, shameless, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking-room, smutty, sordid, sorry, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, sultry, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, ugly, unchaste, unclean, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable, unprintable, unrepeatable, unspeakable, unworthy, valueless, vicious, villainous, vituperative, vomity, vulgar, weevily, wicked, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

VILE VI Like EMACS (Unix, VI, EMACS)
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