evil

Meaning of evil

noun
  1. Moral 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. Something 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. A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
adjective
  1. Intending to harm; malevolent.
    an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
  2. Morally corrupt.
    Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
  3. Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
  4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  5. Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
    an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
  6. Undesirable; 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.
adverb
  1. Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
  2. Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
  3. Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

Information about evil

  • The plural form of evil is: evils.
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Hyphenation of evil

evil

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • evil is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

evil synonyms

Meaning vicious:

vicious

Meaning harmful:

harmful, injurious

Meaning malefic:

malefic, malevolent, malign

Meaning immorality:

immorality, wickedness, iniquity

Meaning evilness:

evilness

Meaning :

malicious, nefarious, wicked

evil antonyms

Meaning :

good

Translation of evil

Anagrams of evil

Ivel, Levi, levi, live, veil, veli, vile, vlei

Words that rhyme with evil

bevil, Devil, archdevil, bedevil, daredevil, demidevil, devil, endevil, outdevil, protodevil, pulldevil, subdevil, swingdevil, underdevil, undevil, weevil, Kevil, kevil, Nevil, nonevil, unevil, mantevil

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