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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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terrible
English
Etymology
From Middle English terrible, from Old French, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terre? (“I frighten, terrify, alarm; I deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t?.??.bl?/, /?t?.??.bl?/
- Homophone: tearable, in some accents
Adjective
terrible (comparative terribler or more terrible, superlative terriblest or most terrible)
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Formidable, powerful.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- […] and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- Unpleasant; disagreeable.
- Very bad; lousy.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:frightening
Antonyms
- (very bad): excellent
Adverb
terrible (comparative more terrible, superlative most terrible)
- (colloquial, dialect) In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- terrible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- terrible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- treblier
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /t??ri.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /te?ri.ble/
Adjective
terrible (masculine and feminine plural terribles)
- terrible (causing fear)
- terrible (formidable, intense)
French
Etymology
From Latin terribilis
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?.?ibl/
Adjective
terrible (plural terribles)
- (all senses) terrible
- (colloquial) great, excellent
Derived terms
- enfant terrible
Related terms
- terreur
- terriblement
- terrifier
Further reading
- “terrible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin terribilis. Cognate with English terrible.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?rible/, [t?e?ri.??le]
- Hyphenation: te?rri?ble
Adjective
terrible (plural terribles)
- terrible, awful, horrible (very bad)
- appalling (shocking, causing consternation)
- terrific (very great or intense)
Derived terms
- terribilísimo
- terriblemente
Related terms
- terror
Further reading
- “terrible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
terrible From the web:
- what terrible thing it was
- what terrible mean
- when terrible things happen
- when something terrible happens
- what is the terrible awful thing in the help
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