evil

/ˈivəl/

noun

  1. 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. 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. 3

    A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

Antonyms

adjective

  1. 1

    Intending to harm; malevolent.

    an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
  2. 2

    Morally corrupt.

    Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
  3. 3

    Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

  4. 4

    Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

  5. 5

    Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

    an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
  6. 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. 1

    Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously

  2. 2

    Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.

  3. 3

    Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

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