heinous

Questions about heinous

What does heinous mean?

heinous means "extremely wicked, deeply criminal".

How many syllables are in heinous?

heinous has 2 syllables: hei-nous. The stress falls on "hei". In IPA it is /ˈheɪnəs/.

What is another word for heinous?

Close synonyms include flagitious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heinous a common word?

heinous is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.