Evil

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant.
  • adj. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful: the evil effects of a poor diet.
  • adj. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous: evil omens.
  • adj. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous: an evil reputation.
  • adj. Characterized by anger or spite; malicious: an evil temper.
  • n. The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
  • n. That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction: a leader's power to do both good and evil.
  • n. An evil force, power, or personification.
  • n. Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction: the social evils of poverty and injustice.
  • ad. Archaic In an evil manner.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  • adj. Morally corrupt.
  • adj. Unpleasant.
  • adj. undesirable; harmful; bad practice
  • n. The forces/behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. Evil generally seeks own benefit at the expense of others and is based on general malevolence.
  • n. Any particular individual or state which may follow these forces or behaviors.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor
  • adj. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious.
  • adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous
  • n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
  • n. Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
  • n. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
  • ad. In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • compar. usually worse, superl. worst (see bad), or more evil, most evil (rarely eviler, evilest).
  • Having harmful qualities or characteristics; productive of or attended by harm or injury; hurtful to the body, mind, or feelings; effecting mischief, trouble, or pain; bad: as, an evil genius; evil laws.
  • Proceeding from a desire to injure; hostile.
  • Contrary to an accepted standard of right or righteousness; inconsistent with or violating the moral law; bad; sinful; wicked: as, evil deeds; an evil heart.
  • Proceeding from, due to, or purporting to be due to immorality or badness of conduct or character.
  • 3 and Bad, vile, base, vicious, wicked, iniquitous.
  • n. Anything that causes injury, as to the body, mind, or feelings; anything that harms or is likely to harm.
  • n. A malady or disease: as, the king's evil (which see, below).
  • n. Conduct contrary to the standard of morals or righteousness, or a disposition toward such conduct; violation of the moral law; harmful intention or purpose.
  • n. A harmful or wrong deed.
  • Injuriously.
  • Not happily; unfortunately.
  • Not virtuously; not innocently.
  • Not well; ill.
  • To fall ill or sick.
  • n. A fork; a hayfork.
  • n. A halter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. morally objectionable behavior
  • n. the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
  • adj. having the nature of vice
  • n. that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
  • adj. having or exerting a malignant influence
  • adj. morally bad or wrong
  • Equivalent
    wicked    maleficent    sinister    ugly    demonic    diabolical    slimy    grievous    unworthy    pestiferous   
    Antonym
    good   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    calamitous    hurtful    pernicious    destructive    bad    corrupt    wicked    perverse    mischieveous    vicious   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    medieval    primeval    retrieval    upheaval    weavil    weevil   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wrong    wicked    own    ill    bad    secret    cold    habria    godhood    mystery