heinous

heinous
adj
1. atrocious, grievous, nefarious, villainous, iniquitous, diabolic, profligate; sinister, forbidding, satanic, devilish, infernal, hellish, wicked; peccant, sinful, immoral, Archaic. felonious, Archaic. facinorous; infamous, opprobrious, flagitious, vicious, baleful, baneful, malefic, venomous, flagrant, black, evil, Obs. pernicious, bad, wrong; monstrous, horrid, horrible, ghastly, shocking, ugly.
2. abominable, abhorrent, execrable, odious, loathsome, detestable, invidious, despicable, hateful; awful, terrible, dire, ill; accursed, cursed, damned, damnable; offensive, repugnant, revolting, repulsive, fulsome; noisome, distasteful, obnoxious, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, nasty, rotten; unbearable, unendurable, insufferable, intolerable; objectionable, annoying.
3. reprehensible, culpable, censurable, blameworthy, deplorable, regrettable, lamentable; contemptible, outrageous, scandalous; shameful, disgraceful, unmentionable, uncommendable, unpraiseworthy; mean, base, low, beggarly, shabby, scurvy, Brit. Inf. beastly.

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  • heinous — hei·nous / hā nəs/ adj: enormously and shockingly evil a heinous crime hei·nous·ly adv hei·nous·ness n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • Heinous — Hei nous (h[=a] n[u^]s), a. [OF. ha[ i]nos hateful, F. haineux, fr. OF. ha[ i]ne hate, F. haine, fr. ha[ i]r to hate; of German origin. See {Hate}.] Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great offense; applied to deeds or to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • heinous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ utterly abhorrent and wicked: a heinous crime. DERIVATIVES heinously adverb heinousness noun. ORIGIN Old French haineus, from hair to hate …   English terms dictionary

  • heinous — [hā′nəs] adj. [ME hainous < OFr hainös (Fr haineux) < haine, hatred < hair, to hate < Frank * hatjan, akin to Ger hassen, HATE] outrageously evil or wicked; abominable [a heinous crime] SYN. OUTRAGEOUS heinously adv. heinousness n …   English World dictionary

  • heinous — late 14c., from O.Fr. hainos inconvenient, awkward; hateful, unpleasant; odious (Mod.Fr. haineux), from haine hatred, from hair to hate, from Frankish *hatjan (Cf. O.S. haton, O.E. hatian to hate; see HATE (Cf. hate) (v.)). Related: Heinously …   Etymology dictionary

  • heinous — *outrageous, atrocious, monstrous Analogous words: *flagrant, glaring, gross, rank: nefarious, flagitious, infamous (see vicious) Antonyms: venial Contrasted words: trivial, trifling, *petty, paltry …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • heinous — meaning ‘extremely wicked’, is pronounced hee nǝs …   Modern English usage

  • heinous — [adj] horrifying, monstrous abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, crying, cursed, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, frightful, godawful*, grave, gross*, hateful, hideous, horrendous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious …   New thesaurus

  • heinous — [[t]he͟ɪnəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe something such as a crime as heinous, you mean that it is extremely evil or horrible. [FORMAL] Her life has been permanently blighted by his heinous crime... They are capable of the most… …   English dictionary

  • heinous — hei|nous [ˈheınəs] adj formal [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: haineus, from haine hate ] 1.) very shocking and immoral ▪ a heinous crime 2.) AmE spoken informal extremely bad ▪ The food in the cafeteria is pretty heinous. >heinousness… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • heinous — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French hainus, heinous, from haine hate, from hair to hate, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German haz hate more at hate Date: 14th century hatefully or shockingly evil ; abominable • heinously …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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