'Evil' definitions:
Definition of 'evil'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" [ant: good]
adjective
Having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious]
adjective
Having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil]
noun
noun
That which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
noun
Definition of 'Evil'
From: GCIDE
- Evil \E*vil\ ([=e]"v'l) a. [OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. yfel; akin to OFries, evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G. ["u]bel, Goth. ubils, and perh. to E. over.]
- 1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop. [1913 Webster]
- A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. --Matt. vii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. [1913 Webster]
- Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. --Deut. xxii. 19. [1913 Webster]
- The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Evil news rides post, while good news baits. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Evil eye, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or fascinating influence. It is still believed by the ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the supernatural power of injuring by a look. [1913 Webster]
- It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. --J. H. Newman.
- Evil speaking, speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness.
- The evil one, the Devil; Satan. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil doer or evildoer, evil speaking or evil-speaking, evil worker, evil wishing, evil-hearted, evil-minded.
- Syn: Mischieveous; pernicious; injurious; hurtful; destructive; wicked; sinful; bad; corrupt; perverse; wrong; vicious; calamitous. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Evil'
From: GCIDE
- Evil \E"vil\, adv. In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- It went evil with his house. --1 Chron. vii. 23. [1913 Webster]
- The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. --Deut. xxvi. 6. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Evil'
From: GCIDE
- Evil \E"vil\ ([=e]"v'l) n.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The evil that men do lives after them. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. --Eccl. ix. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 3. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'evil'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- abomination,
- accursed,
- ado,
- affliction,
- agony,
- amorality,
- angry,
- anguish,
- annoyance,
- anxiety,
- apocalyptic,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- atrocity,
- awful,
- backsliding,
- bad,
- badness,
- baleful,
- bane,
- baneful,
- base,
- baseness,
- befoulment,
- besetment,
- bitchy,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- blight,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- bother,
- breach,
- bugbear,
- burden,
- calamitous,
- calamity,
- can of worms,
- carnality,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- catastrophic,
- catty,
- corrupt,
- corruption,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- criminal,
- criminality,
- crooked,
- crushing burden,
- crying evil,
- curse,
- damage,
- damaging,
- damnable,
- dark,
- deadly,
- deadly sin,
- death,
- debt,
- defilement,
- degeneracy,
- degradation,
- deleterious,
- delinquency,
- delinquent,
- depraved,
- depravity,
- dereliction,
- despiteful,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- destructive,
- detriment,
- detrimental,
- deviant,
- devilry,
- deviltry,
- diablerie,
- diabolism,
- difficult,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disadvantage,
- disagreeable,
- disaster,
- disastrous,
- disease,
- disgrace,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- distasteful,
- doomful,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- enormity,
- error,
- evil nature,
- evil-minded,
- evil-starred,
- evildoing,
- evilness,
- execrable,
- failure,
- fateful,
- fault,
- felonious,
- felony,
- fetid,
- flagitious,
- flagitiousness,
- flagrant,
- foreboding,
- foul,
- foulness,
- genocide,
- ghastly,
- gloomy,
- great ado,
- grievance,
- grisly,
- guilty act,
- hard,
- hardly the thing,
- harm,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- havoc,
- headache,
- heavy sin,
- heinous,
- heinousness,
- hideous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hurt,
- hurtful,
- ignominious,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- illegal,
- immoral,
- immorality,
- improper,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inaccurate,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inconvenience,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- indiscretion,
- inexpedient,
- inexpiable sin,
- infamous,
- infamy,
- infection,
- infelicitous,
- inferior,
- infliction,
- iniquitous,
- iniquity,
- injurious,
- injury,
- injustice,
- insidious,
- invalid,
- knavery,
- knavish,
- lapse,
- lethal,
- loathsome,
- Loki,
- low,
- lowering,
- malefaction,
- malefic,
- maleficence,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malfeasance,
- malign,
- malignant,
- malum,
- matter,
- menacing,
- mephitic,
- minor wrong,
- mischief,
- mischievous,
- misconduct,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misery,
- misfeasance,
- misfortune,
- monstrous,
- moral delinquency,
- mortal sin,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- nefariousness,
- Nemesis,
- nemesis,
- nonfeasance,
- not done,
- not the thing,
- noxious,
- obliquity,
- obscene,
- of evil portent,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- offense,
- offensive,
- ominous,
- omission,
- open wound,
- out-of-line,
- outrage,
- pain,
- peccability,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- peccant,
- peck of troubles,
- perfidious,
- pernicious,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- pestilential,
- plague,
- poison,
- poisonous,
- pollution,
- portending,
- portentous,
- problem,
- prodigality,
- profligacy,
- putrid,
- rancorous,
- rank,
- recidivism,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- reprobacy,
- reprobate,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- ruin,
- ruinous,
- running sore,
- sacrilegious,
- satanism,
- scandal,
- scandalous,
- scourge,
- sea of troubles,
- Set,
- shame,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful,
- sinful act,
- sinfulness,
- sinister,
- slip,
- somber,
- sorrow,
- spiteful,
- stinking,
- suffering,
- terrible,
- the worst,
- thorn,
- threatening,
- torment,
- tort,
- toxic,
- toxin,
- traitorous,
- transgression,
- treacherous,
- trespass,
- trip,
- trouble,
- trying,
- turpitude,
- Typhon,
- ugly,
- unangelicalness,
- unchastity,
- uncleanness,
- underhanded,
- undue,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unforgivable,
- unfortunate,
- ungodliness,
- ungoodness,
- unhealthy,
- unkind,
- unlawful,
- unlucky,
- unmorality,
- unpardonable,
- unpleasant,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unrighteous,
- unrighteousness,
- unsaintliness,
- unscrupulous,
- unseemly,
- unskillful,
- unspeakable,
- unsuitable,
- untoward,
- unutterable sin,
- unvirtuousness,
- unworthy,
- venial sin,
- venom,
- vexation,
- vice,
- vicious,
- viciousness,
- vile,
- vileness,
- villainous,
- villainy,
- virulent,
- visitation,
- wantonness,
- waywardness,
- wicked,
- wickedness,
- woe,
- woeful,
- worry,
- wrathful,
- wrong,
- wrongdoing,
- wrongful
Words containing 'Evil'
- Evilness,
- Evil biseye,
- Evil eye,
- Evil speaking,
- Fox evil,
- King's evil,
- Poll evil,
- The evil one,
- The social evil,
- evil looking,
- evil minded,
- evil nature,
- evil spirit,
- Evil-eyed,
- Evil-favored,
- Evil-favoredness,
- Evil-minded,
- Evil-mindedness,
- Stag-evil,
- evil-looking,
- hill of evil counsel,
- tree of the knowledge of good and evil