Meaning

Synonyms

morally crooked

destructive person

become bad

evil-spirited

evilminded

bad-hearted

acting improperly

cri-minal

of bad conduct

mischievours

of a wicked record

villanious

badly-behaved

enormous

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈwɪkɪd/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō, from Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak.

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