<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip; a vicious attack.</li><li>Synonyms: malevolent, savage, ferocious: They all feared his vicious temper.</li><li>(of an animal) having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition: a vicious bull.</li><li>unpleasantly severe: a vicious headache.</li><li>addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.</li><li>Synonyms: sinful, iniquitous, corrupt, abandoned</li><li>Antonyms: moral</li><li>given or readily disposed to evil: a vicious criminal.</li><li>reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception.</li><li>characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound: vicious reasoning.</li><li>Archaic: morbid, foul, or noxious.</li></ul>