evil

/หˆivษ™l/

IPA: /IY1 V AH0 L/

noun
  1. 1

    Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

    โ€œEvil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.โ€

  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.

    โ€œan evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent peopleโ€

  2. 2

    Morally corrupt.

    โ€œDo you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?โ€

  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.

    โ€œan evil beast; an evil plant; an evil cropโ€

  6. 6

    Undesirable; harmful; bad practice

    โ€œGlobal variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.โ€

adverb
  1. 1

    Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously

  2. 2

    Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.

  3. 3

    Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evil