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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
vile From the web:
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shameful
English
Etymology
From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *s?eamfull, s?eomfull, equivalent to shame +? -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?mf?l/
Adjective
shameful (comparative more shameful, superlative most shameful)
- Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
- "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
- Giving offense.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:despicable
Derived terms
- shamefully
- shamefulness
Translations
shameful From the web:
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- what does shameful mean
- what a shameful behaviour
- what a shameful display
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- what a shameful act
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