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Coldhearted vs Vicious - What's the difference?

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Coldhearted is a related term of vicious.


As adjectives the difference between coldhearted and vicious

is that coldhearted is while vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

coldhearted

English

Adjective

  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Charles Isherwood, Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages, New York Times, url=
    • , passage=Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House. }}

    vicious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
  • *:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
  • Evil, immoral or depraved.
  • Violent, destructive and cruel.
  • Savage and aggressive.
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    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * vicious circle

    Related terms

    * vice * vitiate