flagitious
Meaning of flagitious
adjective
(of a person or their actions) criminal; villainous.
late Middle English: from Latin flagitiosus, from flagitium ‘importunity, shameful crime’, from flagitare ‘demand earnestly’.
Information about flagitious
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Hyphenation of flagitious
flagi-tious
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- flagitious is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
flagitious synonyms
Meaning atrocious:
atrocious, grievous, heinous, monstrous
Translation of flagitious
- French: criminel, ignoble, abominable
- Italian: nefando, malvagio, nefasto, odioso, atroce
- German: ruchlos, schändlich, abscheulich, sündhaft
- Spanish: vil, odioso, abyecto, abominable, odiosa, atroz, abyecta
- Portuguese: abominável, atroz
Words that rhyme with flagitious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious