evil
noun
- 1
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
“Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.”
- 2
Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- 3
A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
Antonyms
adjective
- 1
Intending to harm; malevolent.
“an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people”
- 2
Morally corrupt.
“Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?”
- 3
Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- 4
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- 5
Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
“an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop”
- 6
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.”
Antonyms
adverb
- 1
Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
- 2
Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
- 3
Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
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