vile
English
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#VILECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#VILE vile, vyle, vyl, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#VILE ville, Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#VILE vil, vile, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#VILE vīlis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vaɪ(ə)l/Category:English 2-syllable words#VILECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VILE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VILEAudio (US): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VILEAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪlCategory:Rhymes:English/aɪl#VILECategory:Rhymes:English/aɪl/1 syllable#VILE
- Homophone: vialCategory:English terms with homophones#VILE
Adjective
vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)Category:English lemmas#VILECategory:English adjectives#VILECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
- Morally low; base; despicable.
- vile accusationCategory:English terms with usage examples#VILE
- 1842 February 22, Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society”, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley, editor, The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln:
- Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.Category:English terms with quotations#VILE
- 1870, William Minto, “Daniel Defoe”, in Acme Library of Standard Biography:
- The parties stooped to vile and unbecoming meannesses; infinite briberies, forgeries, perjuries, and all manners of debauchings of the principles and manners of the electors were attempted.Category:English terms with quotations#VILE
- 2020 January 1, “Cultivating Myself Well and Helping People to Understand the Truth about Falun Dafa”, in Minghui:
- People crave human decency, warmth, and sincerity even in the vilest of circumstances…Category:English terms with quotations#VILE
- Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.
- I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.Category:English terms with usage examples#VILE
- The medicine had a vile taste and smell.Category:English terms with usage examples#VILE
- We can't go out in this vile weather.Category:English terms with usage examples#VILE
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:
- Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.Category:English terms with quotations#VILE
Noun
vile (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#VILECategory:English nouns#VILECategory:English uncountable nouns#VILECategory:English uncountable nouns#VILECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
- That which is vile; vileness.
- 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Forging Bonds of Hate and ——?”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, pages 26–27:
- “I had seen those two work before—in the smoking-room the day prior to their attack on you, if I recollect it correctly, and so, knowing their methods, I am convinced that their enmity is a sufficient guarantee of the integrity of its object. Men such as they must cleave only to the vile, hating all that is noblest and best.”Category:English terms with quotations#VILE
Synonyms
- (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble, inappropriate
Derived terms
Translations
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See also
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
A formation from vjel (“to pluck, harvest”).
Noun
vile f (plural vile, definite vilja, definite plural vilet)Category:Albanian lemmas#VILECategory:Albanian nouns#VILECategory:Albanian entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Albanian feminine nouns#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Related terms
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
vile fCategory:Czech non-lemma forms#VILECategory:Czech noun forms#VILECategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Estonian
Etymology
From vilisema + -eCategory:Estonian terms suffixed with -e#VILE.
Noun
vile (genitive vile, partitive vilet)Category:Estonian lemmas#VILECategory:Estonian nouns#VILECategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Declension
| Declension of vile (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vile | viled | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | vile | ||
| genitive | vilede | ||
| partitive | vilet | vilesid | |
| illative | ville vilesse |
viledesse | |
| inessive | viles | viledes | |
| elative | vilest | viledest | |
| allative | vilele | viledele | |
| adessive | vilel | viledel | |
| ablative | vilelt | viledelt | |
| translative | vileks | viledeks | |
| terminative | vileni | viledeni | |
| essive | vilena | viledena | |
| abessive | vileta | viledeta | |
| comitative | vilega | viledega | |
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
vileCategory:French non-lemma forms#VILECategory:French adjective forms#VILECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Italian
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Latin#VILECategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#VILE vīlis (“cheap”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vile m or f by sense (plural vili)Category:Italian lemmas#VILECategory:Italian adjectives#VILECategory:Italian epicene adjectives#VILECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Noun
vile m or f by sense (plural vili)Category:Italian lemmas#VILECategory:Italian nouns#VILECategory:Italian countable nouns#VILECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense#VILECategory:Italian masculine nouns#VILECategory:Italian feminine nouns#VILECategory:Italian nouns with multiple genders#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- vile in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- vile in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- vile in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- vile in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- vile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
vīleCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#VILECategory:Latin adjective forms#VILECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#VILE vīlla.
Pronunciation
Noun
vile oblique singular, f (oblique plural viles, nominative singular vile, nominative plural viles)Category:Old French lemmas#VILECategory:Old French nouns#VILECategory:Old French feminine nouns#VILECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Old French feminine nouns#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
- town; city
- 12th or 13th Century, author unknown, La Damme qui fist trois Tours:
- Ele est la fors en cele vileCategory:Old French terms with quotations#VILE
- She is over there, in the city.
Descendants
- French: ville
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-SlavicCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#VILECategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#VILE *vidla (Russian ви́лы (víly), Czech vidle).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋîle/Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation#VILE
- Hyphenation: vi‧le
Noun
vȉle f pl (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ле)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#VILECategory:Serbo-Croatian nouns#VILECategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns#VILECategory:Serbo-Croatian pluralia tantum#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Declension
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | vile |
| genitive | vila |
| dative | vilama |
| accusative | vile |
| vocative | vile |
| locative | vilama |
| instrumental | vilama |
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
vile (Cyrillic spelling виле)Category:Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms#VILECategory:Serbo-Croatian participle forms#VILECategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian participle form entries#VILECategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
References
- “vile”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-SlavicCategory:Slovene terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#VILECategory:Slovene terms derived from Proto-Slavic#VILE *vidla. First attested in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
víle f plCategory:Slovene lemmas#VILECategory:Slovene nouns#VILECategory:Slovene entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Slovene feminine nouns#VILECategory:Slovene pluralia tantum#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
Declension
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Feminine, a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| nominative | víle | |
| genitive | víl | |
| plural | ||
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
víle | |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
víl | |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
vílam | |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
víle | |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
vílah | |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
vílami | |
Further reading
- “vile”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026
Swahili
Pronunciation
Adjective
vileCategory:Swahili non-lemma forms#VILECategory:Swahili adjective forms#VILECategory:Swahili entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
- vi class(VIII) inflected form and adverbial formCategory:Swahili adverbs of -le
Taulil
Pronunciation
Noun
vileCategory:Taulil lemmas#VILECategory:Taulil nouns#VILECategory:Taulil terms in nonstandard scripts#VILECategory:Taulil entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE
References
Category:tuh:Female family members#VILEVenetan
Noun
vileCategory:Venetan non-lemma forms#VILECategory:Venetan noun forms#VILECategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#VILECategory:Pages with entries#VILECategory:Pages with 13 entries#VILE