Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vitious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vi-tious
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Obsolete form of vicious.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart."
"For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition"
"And therefore ſo many, who are ſiniſtrous unto Good Actions, are Ambi-dexterous unto bad, and Vulcans in virtuous Paths, Achilleſes in vitious motions."

Etymology

From Latin vitiōsus.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: vitiōsus

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more vitious (comparative) most vitious (superlative)

Derived Forms

vitiously

Questions

What does vitious mean?: Obsolete form of vicious.
Where does vitious come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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