Heinous
['heɪnəs;'hiːnəs] or ['henəs]
Definition
(a.) Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
Inputed by Angela
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, infamous, villanous, nefarious, crying, very wicked.
Editor: Sweeney
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hateful, fragrant, Jo_testable, flagitious, atrocious, odious, abominable,execrable, enormous
ANT:Excellent, laudable, meritorious, praiseworthy, distinguished, justifiable,excusable, palliable
Edited by Elsie
Definition
adj. wicked in a high degree enormous: atrocious.—adv. Hei′nously.—n. Hei′nousness.
Typist: Pansy
Examples
- Ingratitude is to be sure a heinous sin, said Fanny shaking her head, and laughing incredulously. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was their duty to judge heinous political crimes, and from their sentence there was no appeal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamentable history. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Pansy