wicked

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.

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

2. 2
   adj

   Harsh; severe.

   wicked wind

3. 3
   adj

   Excellent; awesome; masterful.

   That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!

4. 4
   adv

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Having a wick.

   a two-wicked lamp

6. 6
   adj

   intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

7. 7
   adj

   highly offensive

8. 8
   adj

   having committed unrighteous acts

Etymology

From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak. The "excellent, awesome" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "evil, mischiev…