nefarious
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- extremely wicked
- "nefarious schemes"
Adj
- Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin nefārius (“execrable, abominable”), from nefās (“something contrary to divine law, an impious deed, sin, crime”), from ne- (“not”) + fās (“the dictates of religion, divine law”), which is related to Latin for (“I speak, I say”) and cognate to Ancient Greek φημί (phēmí, “I say”).
Synonyms
abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, dark, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, flagitious, good-for-nothing, harmful, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, underhanded, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong
Scrabble Score: 12
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