Evil

Quick meaning: Evil is an adjective meaning Intending to harm; malevolent.

Meaning

Intending to harm; malevolent.

More Meanings

1. Morally corrupt.
2. Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
4. (computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
5. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
6. 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.
7. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

Example Sentences

If something is evil, it is never mandatory.

an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people

Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death’s approach is seen so terrible.

Word Forms

• eviller
• eviler
• evillest
• evilest
• evils

Synonyms for evil

Depending on context, synonyms include nefarious, malicious, malevolent, wicked, abandoned, arrant.

Antonyms for evil

Common opposites include good, angelic, benign, good-minded, just, moral.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include malefic, maleficent, malign, malevolent, evil-minded, flagitious.

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