Definition/Meaning of wicked

• English - Adjective: wicked (comparative wickeder or more wicked, superlative wickedest or most wicked) Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible . Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 28:1: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.…
• English - Adverb: wicked (not comparable) (Scotland, archaic, not comparable, slang, in Lancashire) To a superlative extent , very , extremely The band we went to see the other night was pissah, and they were wicked loud! I didn't really wanna go see On Golden Pond with the fam, but my mom made me go, and I must say that in retrospect it was a wicked expressive film, with a lot of significant meaning.
• English - Noun: the wicked pl (plural only) (plural, plural only) Wicked (evil) people collectively. 2024, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked Movie Cast, “No One Mourns the Wicked”, in Wicked: The Soundtrack, performed by Ariana grande: And goodness knows the wicked 's lives are lonely / Goodness knows the wicked die alone
• English - Verb: wicked (participle, past) simple past and past participle of wick
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English wicked , wikked , an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker ,…