different between repulsive vs wicked
repulsive
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French repulsif, from Medieval Latin repulsivus, from Latin repulsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???p?ls?v/
- enPR: /r?-p?l's?v/, /r?-p?l's?v/
Adjective
repulsive (comparative more repulsive, superlative most repulsive)
- tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
- (physics) having the capacity to repel
- cold, reserved, forbidding
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "repulsive" is often applied: force, interaction, potential.
Synonyms
- repellent
- similar: disgusting, vile
Antonyms
- (tending to rouse aversion) attractive
- (physics, having the capacity to repel) attractive
Translations
Anagrams
- prelusive, pulverise
Italian
Adjective
repulsive
- feminine plural of repulsivo
repulsive From the web:
- what repulsive mean
- what's repulsive in french
- repulsive force meaning
- repulsive what does it mean
- repulsive what do it mean
- what is repulsive force
- what is repulsive force in chemistry
- what is repulsive gravity
wicked
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wi??a (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?k??d, IPA(key): /?w?k?d/
Adjective
wicked (comparative wickeder or more wicked, superlative wickedest or most wicked)
- Evil or mischievous by nature.
- Synonyms: evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous; see also Thesaurus:evil
- (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.
- Synonyms: awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad; see also Thesaurus:excellent
Usage notes
Use of "wicked" as an adjective rather than an adverb is considered an error in the Boston dialect. However, that is not necessarily the case in other New England dialects.
Derived terms
- wickedly
- wickedness
- wicked tongue
Translations
Adverb
wicked (not comparable)
- (slang, New England, Britain) Very, extremely.
- Synonyms: hella, helluv (both Californian/regional, and both potentially considered mildly vulgar)
Translations
Etymology 2
See wick.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?kt, IPA(key): /w?kt/
Verb
wicked
- simple past tense and past participle of wick
Adjective
wicked (not comparable)
- Having a wick.
Derived terms
- multiwicked
Etymology 3
See wick.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?k?d/
Adjective
wicked
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Active; brisk.
- (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
- Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.
References
Middle English
Adjective
wicked
- Alternative form of wikked
wicked From the web:
- what wicked webs we weave
- what wicked means
- what wicked character are you
- what wicked game you play
- what wicked thing to do
- what wicked tuna star died
- what wickedness was going on in nineveh
- what wicked and disassembling glass of mine
you may also like
- repulsive vs wicked
- perverse vs devilish
- deceptive vs hallucinatory
- lump vs convexity
- purchaser vs client
- hike vs jaunt
- swelling vs knurl
- systematic vs correct
- heap vs dune
- inexhaustible vs sedulous
- permission vs sufferance
- accumulation vs quantity
- preclusion vs interception
- mumbled vs blurred
- objective vs trend
- fraudulent vs nefarious
- insensitive vs calculating
- fluster vs tingling
- copious vs lush
- illogical vs silly