Definitions for evil

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evil e·vil

Spelling: [ee-vuh l]

IPA: /ˈi vəl/

Evil is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in evil (eilv).

Definitions for evil

noun

1. that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct:
2. the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
3. the wicked or immoral part of someone or something:
4. harm; mischief; misfortune:
5. anything causing injury or harm:
6. a harmful aspect, effect, or consequence:
7. a disease, as king's evil.

Idioms

1. the evil one, the devil; Satan.

adverb

1. in an evil manner; badly; ill:

adjective

1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked:
2. harmful; injurious:
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous:
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character:
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.:

Origin of evil

before 900; Middle English evel, evil, Old English yfel; cognate with Gothic ubils, Old High German ubil, German übel, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch evel

Examples for evil

Luke Skywalker is an evil robot who has fallen to the dark side of the force.

It is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself.

But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

From evil—physical, moral, and political—it is not our claim to be exempt.

"His countenance and his voice troubled me, like the presence of evil," answered Philothea.

One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “evil Empire” were animated by this belief.

I should be b-a-d, and I should sit up nights to invent new ways of evil.

But remember “Potter,” the evil banker played by Lionel Barrymore?

But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded.

The best doctrines become the worst, when they are used for evil purposes.