Wicked vs Graceless - What's the difference?
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Evil or mischievous by nature.
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, chapter=6 (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
(slang, New England, British) Very, extremely.
People who are wicked.Oxford dictionary [http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/wicked_2].
(wick)
Having a wick.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
Wicked is a related term of graceless.
As adjectives the difference between wicked and graceless
is that wicked is evil or mischievous by nature or wicked can be having a wick while graceless is without grace.As an adverb wicked
is (slang|new england|british) very, extremely.As a noun wicked
is people who are wickedoxford dictionary [http://wwwoxfordadvancedlearnersdictionarycom/dictionary/wicked_2].As a verb wicked
is (wick).wicked
English
Etymology 1
1225-75 (etyl) wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of (etyl)Adjective
(en-adj)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”. […]’.}}
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 alsoDerived terms
* wickedly * wickedness * wicked tongueAdverb
(-)- The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!
Synonyms
* hella, helluv (primarily Northern California slang )Noun
Etymology 2
See (wick)Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a two-wicked lamp