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Definitions for Vice

[1] an immoral or evil habit or practice.
[2] immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice.
[3] sexual immorality, especially prostitution.
[4] a particular form of depravity.
[5] a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.
[6] a bad habit, as in a horse.
[7] (initial capital letter ) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.
[8] Archaic . a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: In most cases, attempts to relieve the symptoms will be of little avail without at the same time relieving or removing the constitutional vice which has induced this condition.
[9] vise.
[10] instead of; in the place of.
[11] any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
[12] to hold, press, or squeeze with or as with a vise.
[13] a combining form meaning “deputy,” used in the formation of compound words, usually titles of officials who serve in the absence of the official denoted by the base word: viceroy; vice-chancellor.
[14] an immoral, wicked, or evil habit, action, or trait
[15] habitual or frequent indulgence in pernicious, immoral, or degrading practices
[16] a specific form of pernicious conduct, esp prostitution or sexual perversion
[17] a failing or imperfection in character, conduct, etc smoking is his only vice
[18] pathol obsolete any physical defect or imperfection
[19] a bad trick or disposition, as of horses, dogs, etc
[20] an appliance for holding an object while work is done upon it, usually having a pair of jaws
[21] (tr) to grip (something) with or as if with a vice
[22] (prenominal) serving in the place of or as a deputy for (in combination ) viceroy
[23] informal a person who serves as a deputy to another
[24] instead of; as a substitute for
[25] (in English morality plays) a character personifying a particular vice or vice in general
[26] US a variant spelling of vice 2

Words related to Vice

indecency, sensuality, carnality, perversion, lust, trespass, lewdness, offense, rot, decay, debauchery, wickedness, depravity, corruption, immorality, squalor, evil, wrong, licentiousness, debasement

Words nearby Vice

vicariate apostolic, vicarious, vicarious hypertrophy, vicarious menstruation, vicarly, vice, vice admiral, vice chancellor, vice pres., vice president, vice squad

Origin of Vice

-Middle English ≪ Latin vice vice3

Other words from Vice

vise·like , adjective

Word origin for Vice

C16: from Latin, ablative of vicis change

Synonyms for Vice

carnality, corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, degeneracy, depravity, evil, evildoing, ill, immorality, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, maleficence, malignance, offense, perversion, profligacy, rot, sensuality, squalor, transgression, trespass, venality, wickedness, wrong, libidinousness