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Definition of 'evil'English
Adjective
Intending to harm; malevolent.
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?
Morally corrupt.
- an evil plot to kill innocent people
* Shakespeare
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.
Unpleasant. (rfex)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19
- He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
* Shakespeare
- The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.
* Milton
- Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop
* Bible, Matthew vii. 18
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
(computing|programming|slang) 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.
Synonyms
( checksense)
* nefarious
* malicious
* malevolent
* See also
Antonyms
* good
Derived terms
* evil eye
* evil laugh
* evil laughter
* evilly
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* evil-minded
* Evil One
* evil twin
* evilness
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Noun
( wikipedia)
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
* Bible, (Ecclesiastes). ix. 3
- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil .
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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.
* (John Milton)
- evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
* (William Shakespeare)
- The evil that men do lives after them.
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
* (Shakespeare)
* Addison
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil .
Antonyms
* good
Derived terms
* axis of evil
* evildoer
* king's evil
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* lesser evil
* necessary evil
* poll evil
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