Usually means: Extremely wicked or shockingly evil.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word heinous:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. heinous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heinous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heinous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heinous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heinous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heinous, heinous: Wordnik
  7. heinous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heinous: Wiktionary
  9. heinous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heinous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heinous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heinous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Heinous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. heinous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. heinous: Rhymezone
  16. Heinous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. heinous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. heinous: Free Dictionary
  19. heinous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. heinous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. Heinous: The Word Detective
  22. heinous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. heinous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. heinous: Dictionary.com
  25. heinous: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. heinous: Legal dictionary

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

(Note: See heinously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Totally reprehensible.
adjective:  Bad, evil or villainous.

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