vice
[noun]
Synonyms:
- wickedness, corruption, depravity, evil, immorality, iniquity, sin, turpitude
- fault, blemish, defect, failing, imperfection, shortcoming, weakness

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Antonyms: virtue
Contrasted words: morality, respectability, uprightness
Related Idioms: weak point
Related Words: decay, rot, squalor, evil, ill, sin, wrong, indecency, unchastity, debasement, debauchery, licentiousness, perversion, shortcoming

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

vice /vaɪs/ noun
[Sense 1-3: Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin vitium 'fault, vice']

1. [uncountable] criminal activities that involve sex or drugs:
the fight against vice on the streets
The police have smashed a vice ring (=a group of criminals involved in vice) in Chicago. ⇒ Vice Squad

2. [countable] a bad habit:
Smoking is my only vice.

3. [uncountable and countable] a bad or immoral quality in a person, or bad or immoral behaviour Antonym : virtue:
Jealousy is a vice.
to reward virtue and punish vice

4.
[countable] (usuallyvise AmE) a tool that holds an object very firmly so that you can work on it:
He held my arm like a vice.
⇒ vice-like

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

vice- /vaɪs/ prefix
vice-president/chairman etc the person next in rank below someone in authority, who can represent them or act instead of them
vice-president/chairman etc of
the vice-captain of the cricket team
Vice-Chairman Derek Edwards

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

vice
noun
ADJ. secret
VERB + VICE indulge (in) He used his inheritance to indulge his vices of drinking and gambling.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲