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Wicked vs Miscreant - What's the difference?

wicked | miscreant |

As adjectives the difference between wicked and miscreant

is that wicked is evil or mischievous by nature while miscreant is lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.

As nouns the difference between wicked and miscreant

is that wicked is people who are wicked. while miscreant is one who has behaved badly, or illegally.

As an adverb wicked

is very, extremely.

As a verb wicked

is past tense of wick.

wicked

English

Etymology 1

1225-75 (etyl) wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of (etyl)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Evil or mischievous by nature.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • (slang)  Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
    • Usage notes
    * Nouns to which "wicked" is often applied: witch, person, man, woman, angel, deed, act, pleasure, delight, game, way, night, word.
    Synonyms
    * (evil or mischievous) evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous, See also * awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad, See also
    Derived terms
    * wickedly * wickedness * wicked tongue

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (slang, New England, British) Very, extremely.
    • The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!
    Synonyms
    * hella, helluv (primarily Northern California slang )

    Noun

  • People who are wicked.Oxford dictionary [http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/wicked_2].

    • Etymology 2

    See (wick)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wick)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a wick.
    • a two-wicked lamp
  • (British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

    • References

    English degree adverbs English heteronyms English intensifiers

    miscreant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * miscreaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
  • (theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
    • The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.
  • One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
    • (Addison)
  • (theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.
    • (Spenser)
    (De Quincey)
  • * Rivers
    • Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants , but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "miscreant")

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also