villainous
adj.
wicked, sinful; loathsome, abhorrent
Villain
A villain is an "
evil" character in a story, whether an
historical narrative or, especially, a work of
fiction. The villain is the bad guy, the characters who fight against the
hero. A female villain is sometimes called a villainess.A villain's disposition towards evil distinguishes them from an
antagonist. For example, Javert in
Les Miserables is an antagonist: He opposes the hero, but does so by such means and under such pretexts as not to become entirely odious to the reader; a villain may, in fact, even repent, be redeemed, or become a "good guy" in the end. (A villain is virtually always an antagonist, but an antagonist is not always a villain.) The villain is also distinct from the
anti-hero, a character who violates the law or the prevailing social standards, but who nevertheless has the audience's sympathy (and may be or become good-hearted), and is therefore the real hero of the story. Sometimes, a villain may even appear as the protagonist of a story, while the hero who opposes them may be the antagonist.
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villainous
Adjective
1. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
(synonym) nefarious
(similar) wicked
Villainous
(a.)
Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense.
(a.)
Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action.
(a.)
Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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villainous
Synonyms and related words:
abandoned, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, contrary, corrupt, criminal, crooked, damnable, dark, debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest, dissolute, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, faithless, felonious, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted, pitiable, pitiful, profligate, putrid, rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten, sad, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible, too bad, traitorous, treacherous, unclean, unforgivable, unpardonable, unscrupulous, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.