English Dictionary

vicious

/ˈvɪʃəs/

adj

Violent, destructive and cruel. / Savage and aggressive. / (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

The vicious dog attacked the mailman.

意味（1）

Violent, destructive and cruel.

意味（2）

Savage and aggressive.

He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

意味（3）

(archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195: We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.