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Adjective: wicked (wickeder,wickedest)  wi-kid
  1. Morally bad in principle or practice
     
  2. Having committed unrighteous acts
    "a wicked person";
    - sinful, unholy
     
  3. [informal] Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
    "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough";
    - severe, terrible
     
  4. [informal] Naughtily or annoyingly playful
    "a wicked prank";
    - arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, scampish [rare], pixillated
     
  5. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    "a wicked stench";
    - disgusting, disgustful [archaic], distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky [informal], yucky [informal], gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal]
     
  6. [slang] Brilliant; very good
    - socko [N. Amer, informal], righteous [US, slang], fab [Brit, informal], crucial [slang], rad [N. Amer, slang], radical [N. Amer, slang], nang [Brit, slang], phat [slang], legit [US, slang], awesomesauce [informal], amazeballs [informal], beaut [Austral, NZ, informal], lit [US, slang], storming [Brit, informal], blinding [Brit, slang], stonking [Brit, informal], brill [Brit, informal], cushty [Brit, informal], ace [informal], def [slang], magic [Brit, slang], smokin' [slang], smoking [slang], super [informal], sick [N. Amer, slang]
Interjection: wicked  wi-kid
Usage: slang
  1. Expression of enthusiasm
    - whacko [Brit, slang]

Derived forms: wickeder, wickedest

See also: A1 [informal], ace [informal], A-one [informal], awesome [informal], beezer [UK, archaic], brilliant, crack [informal], evil, excellent, facinorous [archaic], fantabulous [informal], first-class, first-rate, flagitious, heavy, heinous, immoral, impious, iniquitous, intense, irreclaimable, irredeemable, ludic [formal], lush [Brit, informal], mean [informal], nefarious, offensive, outstanding, peccable, peccant, playful, ripping [Brit, informal], sinful, splendid, stellar [informal], super, tiptop, top-drawer, topnotch [informal], top-notch [informal], tops [informal], ungodly, unredeemable, unreformable, unrighteous, vicious, villainous, wrong

Antonym: virtuous

Encyclopedia: Wicked, Wicked