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Evil

noun
/ˈivəl/
Word Frequency: 38.8

Definitions

1.nounMoral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
"Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control."
2.nounSomething which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
3.nounA malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
4.adjectiveIntending to harm; malevolent.
"an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people"
5.adjectiveMorally corrupt.
"Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?"
6.adjectiveUnpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
7.adjectiveProducing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
8.adjectiveHaving harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
"an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"
9.adjectiveUndesirable; harmful; bad practice
"Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way."

Synonyms

malevolentmaliciousnefariouswickedmaleficmaleficentmalignevil-mindedflagitiouswickednessdiabolicaliniquity

Antonyms

good

Rhymes With

upheavalprimevalmedievalretrievalweevilshrievalchevalboll weevil
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