evil

evil is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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. adjective. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
3. adjective. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
4. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
7. adverb. In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
8. noun. morally objectionable behavior

   Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness

9. noun. the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

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

   Synonyms: evilness

10. noun. 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. adjective. having or exerting a malignant influence

    "malevolent stars"

    "a malefic force"

    Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign

12. adjective. morally bad or wrong

    "evil purposes"

    "an evil influence"

13. adjective. having the nature of vice

    Synonyms: vicious

Synonyms

immorality, iniquity, wickedness, evilness, malefic, malevolent, malign, vicious

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in evil:

levi, live, veil, vile, vlei

Common word forms

evils, eviler, evilly, evilest, eviller, evillest, evilness

Words from these letters

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