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Synonyms for vile
vaɪlvile
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vileadjective
Synonyms:
base, despicablevileadjective
morally low; base; despicable
Synonyms:
despicable, base
English Synonyms and Antonyms
vile
A brutish man simply follows his animal instincts, without special inclination to do harm; the brutal have always a spirit of malice and cruelty. Brute has no special character, except as indicating what a brute might possess; much the same is true of animal, except that animal leans more to the side of sensuality, brute to that of force, as appears in the familiar phrase "brute force." Hunger is an animal appetite; a brute impulse suddenly prompts one to strike a blow in anger. Bestial, in modern usage, implies an intensified and degrading animalism. Any supremacy of the animal or brute instincts over the intellectual and spiritual in man is base and vile. Beastly refers largely to the outward and visible consequences of excess; as, beastly drunkenness. Compare ANIMAL.
Synonyms:
animal, base, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, ignorant, imbruted, insensible, lascivious, sensual, sottish, stolid, stupid, swinish, unintellectual, unspiritualAntonyms:
elevated, enlightened, exalted, grand, great, humane, intellectual, intelligent, noble, refined
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Princeton's WordNet
despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretchedadjective
morally reprehensible
"would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
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frightful, queasy, offensive, pitiable, pathetic, nauseating, piteous, loathsome, misfortunate, suffering, miserable, pitiful, hapless, horrible, worthless, unworthy, nauseous, slimy, undeserving, horrifying, atrocious, deplorable, sickening, ugly, woeful, noisome, wretched, poor, execrable, despicable, slimed, surlynauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vileadjective
causing or able to cause nausea
"a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Synonyms:
noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, unsavory, ugly, foul, repellent, dysphemistic, slimy, unsavoury, distasteful, offensive, anxious, sick, ill-scented, foetid, despicable, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, sickening, smelly, repelling, worthless, unquiet, foul-smelling, loathsome, sickish, nauseated, nervous, yucky, wicked, uneasy, skanky, funky, wretched, loathly, violative, unworthy, queasy, repellant
Editors Contribution
hellified
the accident was hellified. the outfit that girl was wearing was hellified. in urban lifestyle, it could mean it was good or bad, ( out of this world, sharp or offer). extreme.
Submitted by EJPraise on January 29, 2022
Dictionary of English Synonymes
vileadjective
Synonyms:
base, mean, low, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, abject, scurvy, shabby, base-minded, foulvileadjective
vileadjective
Synonyms:
worthless, of poor quality, linsey-woolsey
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
vileadjective
Synonyms:
base, depraved, vicious, iniquitous, felonious, atrocious, outrageous, shameless, worthless, mean, despicable, contemptible, abject, scurvy, sordid, debased, ignoble, miserable, wretched
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List of paraphrases for "vile":
despicable, infamous, ignoble, cowardly, heinous, ghastly, abhorrent, abominable, odious, dastardly, villainous, disgusting, insufferable, evil, loathsome, contemptible
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Let there be no doubt: the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11 2001 were one of the most vile acts of terror and disastrous violations of the open, free and democratic society in modern history, the tragedy for the world and the families of the almost 3,000 human beings who perished as a result of the attack cannot be overstated.
Our texts are the late night bickering of two grumpy political veterans, who have known each other for years. They are friendly as well as nasty, ribald, vicious, inconsistent humorous and vile.
Justice Thomas has been subject to the most racist and vile attacks since at least 1981 when he joined the Reagan Administration– all because he is a Black man who insists that he be allowed to have his own thoughts and ideas, he believes in individual rights, not group rights, an idea that is literally enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. But because he holds those views, the Left and in particular the bankrupt civil rights groups, attack him.
Now that is a huge verdict to be sure, but it is one that will do justice to the level of harm done in this case, harm that was done to the parents, grieving parents of murdered children who have had to endure for 10 years, the most despicable and vile campaign of defamation and slander in American history.
ON ANGER: "It is the base and vile bramble, the fruit of the earth's curse, that tears and rends what is next to it." Thomas Adams
Translations for vile
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- حقيرArabic
- vilCatalan, Valencian
- odporný, hnusnýCzech
- gemein, abscheulichGerman
- vilSpanish
- alhainen, katalaFinnish
- vilFrench
- viðbjóðslegur, andstyggilegurIcelandic
- ignobile, abietto, bassoItalian
- 卑しい, 汚い, 卑劣Japanese
- netikumisks, nekrietns, netikumīgs, zemisksLatvian
- долен, низок, омразенMacedonian
- verachtelijkDutch
- podłyPolish
- vilPortuguese
- мерзкий, низкий, подлый, гнусныйRussian
- இழிவானTamil
- alçakTurkish
- hèn hạVietnamese
- 惡劣Chinese
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