Word Meaning

evil definition and meaning

a. 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.
a. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
a. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
adv. In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Crossword clues for evil

- Bad part of the villa
- Bad part of the village
- Heinous
- Immoral
- Iniquity
- Little devil
- Live adaptation of Wicked
- Live production of Wicked
- Malevolent
- Morally bad
- Nasty
- Nefarious
- Satanic
- Sin
- Sinful
- Sinister
- Source of harm
- Taking dish away is devilish!
- Very bad
- Very bad to be seen in vaudeville
- Very dark
- Wicked
- Wicked and somewhat devilish
- Wicked or bad
- Wickedness