different between wicked vs unhallowed
wicked
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wi??a (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?k??d, IPA(key): /?w?k?d/
Adjective
wicked (comparative wickeder or more wicked, superlative wickedest or most wicked)
- Evil or mischievous by nature.
- Synonyms: evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous; see also Thesaurus:evil
- (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.
- Synonyms: awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad; see also Thesaurus:excellent
Usage notes
Use of "wicked" as an adjective rather than an adverb is considered an error in the Boston dialect. However, that is not necessarily the case in other New England dialects.
Derived terms
- wickedly
- wickedness
- wicked tongue
Translations
Adverb
wicked (not comparable)
- (slang, New England, Britain) Very, extremely.
- Synonyms: hella, helluv (both Californian/regional, and both potentially considered mildly vulgar)
Translations
Etymology 2
See wick.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?kt, IPA(key): /w?kt/
Verb
wicked
- simple past tense and past participle of wick
Adjective
wicked (not comparable)
- Having a wick.
Derived terms
- multiwicked
Etymology 3
See wick.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?k?d/
Adjective
wicked
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Active; brisk.
- (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
- Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.
References
Middle English
Adjective
wicked
- Alternative form of wikked
wicked From the web:
- what wicked webs we weave
- what wicked means
- what wicked character are you
- what wicked game you play
- what wicked thing to do
- what wicked tuna star died
- what wickedness was going on in nineveh
- what wicked and disassembling glass of mine
unhallowed
English
Etymology
un- +? hallowed
Adjective
unhallowed (comparative more unhallowed, superlative most unhallowed)
- Not hallowed or blessed; unholy.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i[1]:
- Gratiano:
- O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
- And for thy life let justice be accused.
- Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
- To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
- That souls of animals infuse themselves
- Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
- Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
- Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
- And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
- Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
- Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i[1]:
Antonyms
- hallowed
Translations
unhallowed From the web:
- what unhallowed mean
- what does unhallowed mean
- what is unhallowed ground
- what does unhallowed disunion mean
- what does unhallowed ground mean
- what does unhallowed mean in english
- what do unhallowed mean
- what does unhallowed mean in literature
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