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facinorous

/fəˈsɪnəɹəs/

facinorous adjective: extremely wicked.

Adjective

facinorous (comparative more facinorous, superlative most facinorous)

  1. (archaic, formal) Extremely wicked.
    • Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had.
      Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.

Forms of facinorous

comparativemore facinorous
superlativemost facinorous

Origin of facinorous

Borrowed from Latin facinorōsus, from facinus (“deed, bad deed”), from faciō (“to make, to do”).

Words formed from facinorous

Questions about facinorous

What does facinorous mean?
Facinorous means extremely wicked.
What part of speech is facinorous?
Facinorous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce facinorous?
Facinorous is pronounced /fəˈsɪnəɹəs/.

Words near facinorous in the dictionary

  1. facing the facts
  2. facing the music
  3. facing up
  4. facing up to
  5. facings
  6. facinorous
  7. facinorousness
  8. Facio
  9. facio-
  10. facioauriculovertebral
  11. faciobrachial

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