Word.ws English Dictionary

vandalish

vandalish adjective: characteristic of a vandal; wantonly destructive.

Adjective

vandalish (comparative more vandalish, superlative most vandalish)

  1. Characteristic of a vandal; wantonly destructive.
    • Within a few days of our reading the report of the vandalish statue-burnings of the Oxford undergrads, we met with the announcement of a wholesale destruction of idols by the natives of Madagascar.1870, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 229, page 250
    • Yes, I witnessed this vandalish operation, and saw large flakes of stucco imprinted with the touches of Rubens fall upon the floor […]1834, William Thomas Beckford, Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal, page 241

Forms of vandalish

comparativemore vandalish
superlativemost vandalish

Origin of vandalish

From vandal + -ish.

Questions about vandalish

What does vandalish mean?
Vandalish means characteristic of a vandal; wantonly destructive.
What part of speech is vandalish?
Vandalish is an adjective.

Words near vandalish in the dictionary

  1. vandalise
  2. vandalised
  3. vandaliser
  4. vandalisers
  5. vandalises
  6. vandalish
  7. vandalising
  8. vandalism
  9. vandalisms
  10. vandalist
  11. vandalistic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vandalish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “vandalish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vandalish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.