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vile
English
Etymology
From Old French vil, from Latin vilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
- Homophone: vial
Adjective
vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)
- Morally low; base; despicable.
- Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.
Synonyms
- (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble
Derived terms
- vilify
Translations
Anagrams
- Levi, Viel, evil, live, veil, vlei
Albanian
Etymology
A formation from vjel (“to pluck, harvest”).
Noun
vile f (indefinite plural vile, definite singular vilja, definite plural vilet)
- bunch of grape
Related terms
- vjel
- vjell
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?v?l?]
Noun
vile f
- dative/locative singular of vila
Estonian
Etymology
From vilisema +? -e.
Noun
vile (genitive vile, partitive vilet)
- whistle
Declension
French
Adjective
vile
- feminine singular of vil
Italian
Etymology
From Latin v?lis (“cheap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vi.le/
Adjective
vile (plural vili)
- cowardly, dastardly
- Synonyms: codardo, vigliacco
- base, miserable, mean
- Synonym: miserabile
- cheap, worthless, base
- Synonym: privo di valore
Noun
vile m or f (plural vili)
- coward
- Synonyms: fifone, codardo
Derived terms
- avvilire
- svilire
Related terms
- vilmente
- viltà
- vilipendio
Anagrams
- levi, live, veli
Latin
Adjective
v?le
- inflection of v?lis:
- nominative neuter singular
- accusative neuter singular
- vocative neuter singular
Old French
Alternative forms
- ville
Etymology
From Latin v?lla.
Noun
vile f (oblique plural viles, nominative singular vile, nominative plural viles)
- town; city
Descendants
- French: ville
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *vidly (Russian ????? (víly), Czech vidle).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?île/
- Hyphenation: vi?le
Noun
v?le f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (plural only) pitchfork
Declension
References
- “vile” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *vidla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ì?l?/
Noun
víle f pl
- pitchfork
Inflection
Further reading
- “vile”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swahili
Pronunciation
Adjective
vile
- Vi class inflected form and adverbial form of -le.
Venetian
Noun
vile
- plural of vila
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awful
English
Alternative forms
- awfull (archaic), aweful (obsolete), awefull (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English agheful, awfull, auful, a?efull, equivalent to awe +? -ful. Compare Old English e?eful, e?efull (“terrifying; awful”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???f?l/, /???f?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??f?l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??f?l/
- Rhymes: -??f?l
- Homophone: offal (some accents)
Adjective
awful (comparative awfuller or more awful, superlative awfullest or most awful)
- Very bad.
- My socks smell awful.
- We saw such an awful film last night that we left the theater before the end.
- Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
- an awful bonnet
- I have learnt an awful amount today.
- (now dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
- 1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Schalken the Painter
- There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of the person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stonelike stillness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist.
- 1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Schalken the Painter
- (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.143:
- And then she stopped, and stood as if in awe / (For sleep is awful) […].
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.143:
- (now rare) Struck or filled with awe.
- (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
- Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:frightening
Derived terms
- awfulness
- awfully
Translations
Adverb
awful (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Awfully; dreadfully; terribly.
- (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.
- That's an awful big house.
- She seemed awful nice when I met her yesterday.
- He was blubbering away something awful.
Translations
See also
- awfully
Further reading
- awful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- awful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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