English > evil: 6 senses > adjective 1Meaning | morally bad or wrong. |
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Examples | - "evil purposes"
- "an evil influence"
- "evil deeds"
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Attribute of | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
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Narrower | atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous | Shockingly brutal or cruel |
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bad | Characterized by wickedness or immorality |
black, dark, sinister | stemming from evil characteristics / characteristics or forces |
corruptive, perversive, pestiferous | tending to corrupt or pervert |
demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy | extremely evil or cruel |
despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched | morally reprehensible |
devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean | showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil |
evil-minded | Having evil thoughts or intentions |
See also | bad | Having undesirable or negative qualities |
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immoral | deliberately violating / violating accepted principles of right and wrong |
infernal | Of the underworld |
offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses |
unrighteous | not righteous |
wicked | morally bad in principle / principle or practice |
wrong | contrary to conscience or morality or law |
Opposite | good | morally admirable |
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Spanish | mal, maléfico, malévolo, malo, malvado, perjudicial |
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Catalan | dolent, mal, malvat, perjudicial |
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Nouns | evilness | the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
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Adverbs | evilly | in a wicked evil manner |
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English > evil: 6 senses > noun 3, attributeMeaning | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice. |
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Example | "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" |
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Synonym | evilness |
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Attributes | evil | morally bad or wrong |
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Narrower | error, wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
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frailty, vice | Moral weakness |
maleficence, mischief, balefulness | The quality or nature of being harmful or evil |
malevolence, malevolency, malice | The quality of threatening evil |
malignity, malignancy, malignance | Quality of being disposed to evil |
nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, ugliness | The quality of being wicked |
perversity, perverseness | deliberately deviating from what is good |
reprehensibility | reprehensible |
villainy, villainousness | The quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior |
worst | The greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable |
Broader | immorality | The quality of not being in accord / accord with standards of right or good conduct |
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Opposite | good, goodness | moral excellence or admirableness |
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Spanish | maldad, mal |
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Catalan | maldat, malesa, mal |
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