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Woven vs Wicked - What's the difference?

woven | wicked |

As adjectives the difference between woven and wicked

is that woven is fabricated by weaving while wicked is evil or mischievous by nature.

As nouns the difference between woven and wicked

is that woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic while wicked is people who are wicked..

As verbs the difference between woven and wicked

is that woven is past participle of lang=en while wicked is past tense of wick.

As an adverb wicked is

very, extremely.

woven

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Fabricated]] by [[weave#Etymology 1, weaving.
    • Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.
  • Interlaced
    • The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.
    English adjectives ending in -en ----

    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