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Meaning of evil

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evil

Pronunciation:/ˈivəl/

noun

Definitions

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

    Example: Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.

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

adjective

Definitions

  1. Intending to harm; malevolent.

    Example: an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people

  2. Morally corrupt.

    Example: Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?

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

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

evil

Pronunciation:/ˈivəl/

adverb

Definitions

  1. Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously

  2. Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.

  3. Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.