Usually means: Cruel, aggressive, deliberately harmful behavior.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word vicious:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. vicious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vicious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vicious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vicious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vicious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vicious, vicious: Wordnik
  7. vicious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vicious: Wiktionary
  9. vicious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vicious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vicious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vicious: Dictionary.com
  13. vicious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vicious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Vicious (Cowboy Bebop), Vicious (Halestorm album), Vicious (Lou Reed song), Vicious (TV series), Vicious (novel), Vicious (rapper), Vicious (song), Vicious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vicious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vicious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vicious: Rhymezone
  19. vicious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vicious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vicious: Free Dictionary
  22. vicious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vicious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Vicious: Wiktionary

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  1. vicious: Legal dictionary

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  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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