Usually means: Extremely wicked or shockingly evil.
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  1. heinous: Merriam-Webster
  2. heinous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heinous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heinous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heinous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heinous, heinous: Wordnik
  7. heinous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heinous: Wiktionary
  9. heinous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heinous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heinous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heinous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Heinous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. heinous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. heinous: Rhymezone
  16. Heinous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. heinous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. heinous: FreeDictionary.org
  19. heinous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Heinous: The Word Detective
  21. heinous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. heinous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. heinous: Dictionary.com
  24. heinous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  25. heinous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. heinous: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. heinous: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heinous: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. heinous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heinous)

▸ adjective:  Totally reprehensible.
▸ adjective:  Bad, evil or villainous.

Similar:
evil, atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous, wicked, base, damnable, messed up, discommendable, more...

Opposite:
innocuous, benign, inoffensive

Types:
atrocious, horrendous, abominable, abhorrent, more...

Phrases:
heinous act, heinous acts, heinous action, heinous crimes, more...

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    dark red,     blood red,     black,     charcoal,     deep purple, more...


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Similar:
evil, atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous, wicked, base, damnable, messed up, discommendable, more...

Opposite:
innocuous, benign, inoffensive

Types:
atrocious, horrendous, abominable, abhorrent, more...

Phrases:
heinous act, heinous acts, heinous action, heinous crimes, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     blood red,     black,     charcoal,     deep purple, more...



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