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viciousest

viciousest is the superlative form of vicious.

Meaning of vicious

Adjective

vicious (comparative more vicious or viciouser, superlative most vicious or viciousest)

  1. Violent, destructive and cruel.
  2. Savage and aggressive.
    • He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
  3. (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
    • We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195

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Questions about viciousest

What is viciousest the superlative form of?
Viciousest is the superlative form of vicious.

Words near viciousest in the dictionary

  1. vicious cycle
  2. vicious cycles
  3. vicious intromission
  4. vicious intromissions
  5. viciouser
  6. viciousest
  7. viciously
  8. viciousness
  9. viciousnesses
  10. vicissities
  11. vicissitous

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