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 Definitions of EVIL  [ˈi vəl]  

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Definition of 'EVIL' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) evil
morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked:
evil deeds; an evil life.

2.  evil
harmful; injurious:
evil laws.

3.  evil
characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous:
to fall on evil days.

4.  evil
due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character:
an evil reputation.

5.  evil
marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.:
an evil disposition.

6. (n.) evil
something evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct:
to choose the lesser of two evils.

7.  evil
the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.

8.  evil
the wicked or immoral part of someone or something.

9.  evil
harm; mischief; misfortune:
to wish one evil.

10.  evil
anything causing injury or harm.

11.  evil
a disease, as king's evil.

12. (adv.) evil
in an evil manner; badly; ill:
It went evil with him.


Definition of 'EVIL' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
morally objectionable behavior

2. (noun) evil
that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
"the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare

3. (adj) evil, evilness
the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
"attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"

4. (adj) evil
morally bad or wrong
"evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

5. (adj) evil, vicious
having the nature of vice

6. (adj) malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
having or exerting a malignant influence
"malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"


Definition of 'EVIL' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) evil
morally bad or wrong; = wicked
an evil murderer

2. (noun) evil
good
the struggle between good and evil

3.  evil
things that cause problems or suffering
the evils of capitalism


Definition of 'EVIL' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) EVIL
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. (adj) EVIL
having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like

3. (adj) EVIL
producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days

4. (adverb) EVIL
in an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly

5. (noun) EVIL
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

6. (noun) EVIL
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

7. (noun) EVIL
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula


Definitions of 'EVIL' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  EVIL
As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous/losing/brain-damaged series, evil does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This usage is more an esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense. “We thought about adding a Blue Glue interface but decided it was too evil to deal with.” “TECO is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos.” Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/. Compare evil and rude.


Translation of 'EVIL' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: very bad; wicked; sinful
evil intentions; an evil man; He looks evil; evil deeds; an evil tongue.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: boos Arabic flag Arabic: شِرّير، سَيِّء Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: зъл
Brazilian flag Brazilian: mau Czech flag Czech: špatný, zlý German flag German: böse
Danish flag Danish: ond; ondskabsfuld Greek flag Greek: κακός, μοχθηρός Spanish flag Spanish: malo, malvado
Estonian flag Estonian: õel, paheline Farsi flag Farsi: خبیث؛ شیطانی Finnish flag Finnish: paha
French flag French: mauvais Hebrew flag Hebrew: רַע Hindi flag Hindi: दुष्ट, बुरा, पापी
Croatian flag Croatian: zao, loš Hungarian flag Hungarian: rossz Indonesian flag Indonesian: jahat
Icelandic flag Icelandic: vondur, illur Italian flag Italian: cattivo, maligno Japanese flag Japanese: 邪悪な
Korean flag Korean: 사악한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: piktas, blogas, nedoras Latvian flag Latvian: ļauns; slikts
Malay flag Malay: jahat Dutch flag Dutch: slecht Norwegian flag Norwegian: ond; syndig
Polish flag Polish: zły Persian flag Persian: خبیث؛ شیطانی Pashto flag Pashto: اوړه، بد، خراب،
Portuguese flag Portuguese: mau Romanian flag Romanian: rău Russian flag Russian: злой; порочный
Slovak flag Slovak: zlý Slovenian flag Slovenian: hudoben Serbian flag Serbian: zao
Swedish flag Swedish: ond, ondskefull, syndig, Thai flag Thai: ชั่วร้าย Turkish flag Turkish: çok kötü, ahlâksız
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 邪惡的,惡毒的,罪惡的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: злий, лихий Urdu flag Urdu: اخلاقا مذموم
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: xấu xa Chinese flag Chinese: 邪恶的

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'EVIL' - Nearby Entries  

evil  evil eye  evil-minded  evildoer  evildoing  evilly  evilness  



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