Heinous \Hei"nous\ (h[=a]"n[u^]s), a. [OF. ha["i]nos hateful, F.
haineux, fr. OF. ha["i]ne hate, F. haine, fr. ha["i]r to
hate; of German origin. See Hate.]
Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving
great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
[1913 Webster]
It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
How heinous had the fact been, how deserving
Contempt! --Milton.
Syn: Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
heinous
adj : shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime";
"a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous
crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to
commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "heinous":
abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base,
beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black,
blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, criminal,
crude, crummy, crying, damnable, dark, debased, degraded,
deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, dire,
dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous,
evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding,
foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, horrible, horrid,
ignoble, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable,
little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy,
mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous,
nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious,
objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous,
paltry, peccant, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank,
rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate,
reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scabby,
scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby,
shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, sordid,
squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unforgivable,
unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile,
villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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