heinous
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Heinous \Hei"nous\ (h[=a]"n[u^]s), a. [OF. ha["i]nos hateful, F.
haineux, fr. OF. ha["i]ne hate, F. haine, fr. ha["i]r to
hate; of German origin. See {Hate}.]
Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving
great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
[1913 Webster]
It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
How heinous had the fact been, how deserving
Contempt! --Milton.
Syn: Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious. --
{Hei"nous*ly}, adv. -- {Hei"nous*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "heinous":
abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base,
beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black,
blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, criminal,
crude, crummy, crying, damnable, dark, debased, degraded,
deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, dire,
dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous,
evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding,
foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, horrible, horrid,
ignoble, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable,
little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy,
mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous,
nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious,
objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous,
paltry, peccant, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank,
rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate,
reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scabby,
scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby,
shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, sordid,
squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unforgivable,
unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile,
villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong
[email protected]