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iniquitous

UK/ɪˈnɪkwɪtəs/US/ɪˈnɪkwɪtəs/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,075 of 15,258neutral

Iniquitous means grossly unfair and wicked. An iniquitous system.

It carries a moral charge that unfair does not, which is why it belongs to preaching and to politics. Iniquitous is used of arrangements and laws rather than of people.

Definitions of iniquitous

  1. 1adjectiveiniquitousGrossly unfair and wicked.C2

    “The whole iniquitous arrangement lasted for eighty years.”

iniquitous is a quality.

Where it comes from

Iniquity plus -ous, from Latin iniquus, unequal, from in plus aequus, fair.

From iniquity + ous.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

iniquitous in the wild

  • The wife of a count from the Val d'Ossola region, she was exiled to a remote castle at Bellagio, near Lake Como, because of her iniquitous behaviour.

    Adeliza de Borgomanero

  • Considerable controversy is still present over whether "iniquitous pressure" must actually be exercised by a defendant in order for a voluntary obligation to be voidable.

    Unconscionability in English law

  • As such, Peace was frequently confined to those iniquitous siding towns, of which Sharman knew little.

    Charles H. Sharman

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.