 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]:
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