evil

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   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.

2. 2adjective

   Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

3. 3adjective

   Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

4. 4noun

   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.

5. 5noun

   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.

6. 6noun

   malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

7. 7adverb

   In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

8. 8noun

   morally objectionable behavior

   Synonyms

   immoralityiniquitywickedness
9. 9noun

   the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

   "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"

   Synonyms

   evilness
10. 10noun

    that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune- Shakespeare

    "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"

11. 11adjective

    having or exerting a malignant influence

    "malevolent stars"

    "a malefic force"

    Synonyms

    maleficmalevolentmalign
12. 12adjective

    morally bad or wrong

    "evil purposes"

    "an evil influence"

13. 13adjective

    having the nature of vice

    Synonyms

    vicious