English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From Latin nefandus, from ne- (“not”) + fandus, gerundive of fārī (“to speak”).

Pronunciation [ edit ]

( UK ) IPA (key) : /nɪˈfandəs/ Audio (UK)

IPA : ( US ) IPA(key): /nəˈfændəs/

Adjective [ edit ]

nefandous (comparative more nefandous, superlative most nefandous)

( archaic ) Unspeakable, appalling. 1684 , Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences : Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High.

, Increase Mather, : 1931 , H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.

, H.P. Lovecraft, 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, nefandous conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashion away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia.