wicked
大学受験邪悪な
意味
- (人・行為が)悪い,邪悪な,不正な
- 《古話》(子供のように)いたずらっぽい
- 《話》有害な,危険な;いやな,不愉快な
- 《俗》すばらしい,巧みな
例文
Once there lived a very wicked king in England.
昔、イングランドにたいへん意地の悪い王様が住んでいた。
Animals act in a better manner than wicked humans.
動物は邪悪な人間に比べ悪い行動はしない。
He seems nice, but he's wicked at heart.
彼は人が良さそうに見えるが本当は底意地が悪い。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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, mischievous". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and sick.