Heinous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Totally reprehensible.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hateful; odious; reprehensible.
  • Hence Reprehensibly great; enormous; aggravated: sometimes used (in a similar sense) of persons.
  • Synonyms Wicked, Infamous, etc. (see atrocious); flagitious, dreadful, horrible.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal
    • Equivalent
    wicked   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    monstrous    atrocious    flagrant    flagitious    hateful    odious    abominable    horrible   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Anus    Janus    Pandanus    anus    gayness    pandanus   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    atrocious    flagrant    unpardonable    dastardly    venial    nefarious    shameful    abominable    grievous    detestable   
     
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