Vice Definition

vīs
noun
An evil or wicked action, habit, or characteristic.
Webster's New World
Evil or wicked conduct or behavior; depravity or corruption.
Webster's New World
Prostitution.
Webster's New World
Prostitution, the sale of illegal drugs, and certain other forms of usually nonviolent criminal behavior.
American Heritage
Any trivial fault or failing, act of self-indulgence, etc.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
preposition
In the place of; as the deputy or successor of.
Webster's New World
prefix
One who acts in the place of another; deputy.
Vice-chairman.
American Heritage
affix
One who acts in the place of; subordinate; deputy.
Vice-chairman, viceregal.
Webster's New World
verb
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
Wiktionary
adjective

In place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank.

Vice president.
Vice admiral.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Vice

Noun

Singular:
vice
Plural:
vices

Origin of Vice

  • Middle English from Old French vis-, vice- from Late Latin vice- from Latin vice ablative of *vix change weik-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French vis (“screw, winding stairs"), from Old French vis, viz, from Latin vitis (“vine"); akin to English withy.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin vice (“in place of"), ablative form of vicis.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin vitium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin ablative of vix change vice–

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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