Defenition of the word evil

• Defenition of the word evil

  • Intending to harm.
  • That which is evil.
  • having the nature of vice
  • 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
  • the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice: "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
  • tending to cause great harm
  • morally objectionable behavior
  • morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
  • having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
  • the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
  • 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
  • the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
  • that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
  • having or exerting a malignant influence
  • morally bad or wrong

Synonyms for the word evil

• • depraved
  • evilness
  • harmful
  • immorality
  • iniquity
  • injurious
  • malefic
  • malevolent
  • malign
  • vicious
  • wicked
  • wickedness

Similar words in the evil

• • atrocious
  • bad
  • black
  • corruptive
  • dark
  • demonic
  • despicable
  • devilish
  • diabolic
  • diabolical
  • evil-minded
  • fiendish
  • flagitious
  • grievous
  • heinous
  • hellish
  • immoral
  • infernal
  • maleficent
  • malign
  • mephistophelean
  • mephistophelian
  • monstrous
  • offensive
  • perversive
  • pestiferous
  • satanic
  • sinister
  • ugly
  • unholy
  • unrighteous
  • unworthy
  • vile
  • wicked
  • wrong

Hyponyms for the word evil

• • balefulness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • error
  • foul play
  • Four Horsemen
  • frailty
  • irreverence
  • maleficence
  • malevolence
  • malevolency
  • malice
  • malignance
  • malignancy
  • malignity
  • mischief
  • nefariousness
  • perverseness
  • perversity
  • reprehensibility
  • sexual immorality
  • ugliness
  • vice
  • vileness
  • villainousness
  • villainy
  • violation
  • wickedness
  • worst
  • wrongdoing

Hypernyms for the word evil

• • bad
  • badness
  • evildoing
  • immorality
  • transgression

Antonyms for the word evil

• • good
  • goodness

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