wicked

adj

1. Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.

   “Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.”

   “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.”

   ““Yes,” replied she; “and the saddest part of it all is that she is not marrying the man she loves. Oh, it is terrible. Marrying from a sense of duty! I think it is perfectly wicked, and I told her so.””

   “‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.”

   “What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way / What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you / What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way”

2. Harsh; severe.

   “wicked wind”

3. (slang)Excellent; awesome; masterful; exceptional.

   “That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!”

   “The Artemis II astronauts sent back descriptions of the total solar eclipse they viewed from space to NASA's Mission Control. "It’s truly hard to describe. It is amazing," pilot Victor Glover said. Glover said that the Orion spacecraft was made as dark as possible due to every bit of light in the cabin affecting the view. "It’s a wicked view," he said of the darkened moon with deep space behind it.”

4. (not-comparable)Having a wick.

   “a two-wicked lamp”

   “Up went Moggy, with her thick-wicked kitchen candle, to seek repose; […]”

5. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)Active; brisk.
6. (British, Yorkshire, dialectal)Infested with maggots.
7. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.

adv

1. (Boston, Scotland, archaic, especially, not-comparable, slang)To a superlative extent, very, extremely

   “I didn't really wanna go see On Golden Pond with the fam, but my mom made me go, and I must say that in retrospect it was a wicked expressive film, with a lot of significant meaning.”

   “The band we went to see the other night was pissah, and they were wicked loud!”

   “James: It looks like you're wearing earrings also. Those are really something. Those aren't too heavy, are they? / Sonia: No, they're actually, like, wicked light.”

noun

1. (plural, plural-only)Wicked (evil) people collectively.

   “And goodness knows the wicked's lives are lonely / Goodness knows the wicked die alone”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of wick