Usually means: Cruel, aggressive, deliberately harmful behavior.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. vicious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vicious: Merriam-Webster
  3. vicious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vicious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vicious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vicious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vicious, vicious: Wordnik
  8. vicious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vicious: Wiktionary
  10. vicious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vicious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vicious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vicious: Dictionary.com
  14. vicious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. vicious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Vicious (Cowboy Bebop), Vicious (Halestorm album), Vicious (Lou Reed song), Vicious (TV series), Vicious (novel), Vicious (rapper), Vicious (song), Vicious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Vicious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. vicious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. vicious: Rhymezone
  20. vicious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. vicious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. vicious: FreeDictionary.org
  23. vicious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. vicious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Vicious: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vicious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vicious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vicious: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vicious: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vicious: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. vicious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See viciously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Violent, destructive and cruel.
adjective:  Savage and aggressive.
adjective:  (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
noun:  A surname.

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