wicked
Wicked people collectivelyWicked (evil) people collectively.
» The wicked witch cast an evil spell on the man and turned him into an insect.
Зла чаклунка наслала злі чари на чоловіка і перетворила його на комаху. — ChickenKiev
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1 senses(plural, plural only)Wicked (evil) people collectively.
Examples
96 sentencesThe wicked witch cast an evil spell on the man and turned him into an insect.
Зла чаклунка наслала злі чари на чоловіка і перетворила його на комаху. — ChickenKiev
Tom is wicked.
Том злий. — deniko
ruТом злой. — sharptoothed
deTom ist verrucht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
It's a wicked thing to do.
ruЭто дурной поступок. — sharptoothed
Tom has a wicked sense of humor.
Murder is a wicked crime.
ruУбийство - это гнусное преступление. — corvard
Origin
From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morallyFrom 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 (“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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Forms
plural: the wicked| Singular | wicked |
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irregular · Lesson
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.