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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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unkind
English
Etymology
From un- +? kind.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?ka?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Adjective
unkind (comparative unkinder or more unkind, superlative unkindest or most unkind)
- Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. [From mid-14thC.]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
- This was the most unkindest cut of all;
- For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
- Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,
- Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;
- 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: W. Bowyer and Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 24, lines 968-971, p. 189,[2]
- Yet was it ne’er my Fate, from thee to find
- A Deed ungentle, or a Word unkind:
- When others curst the Auth’ress of their Woe,
- Thy Pity check’d my Sorrows in their Flow:
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Chapter 2,[3]
- Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.
- 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics, Life, page 16,
- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
- 1974, Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse, 3rd Edition, page 175,
- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
- 2000, Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes, in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, page 540,
- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- (obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. [From 13thC.]
- 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33,[4]
- […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.
- 1617, John Davies, Wits Bedlam, London, Epigram 116,[5]
- Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old,
- Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt
- Them to be theirs;
- 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33,[4]
- (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[6]
- O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,
- She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[6]
Derived terms
- unkindest cut
Related terms
- unkindly
- unkindness
Anagrams
- Dunkin, nudnik
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