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| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinful, immoral |
| Synonyms: | angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong, maleficent, no good, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, curse, debauchery, depravity, diablerie, harm, hatred, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, lewdness, malevolence, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, ruin, sin, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing, criminality, devilry, diabolism, heinousness, knavery, licentiousness, looseness, malignity, perversity, sinfulness, viciousness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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-nouns
evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to., blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus; damage, loss (deterioration) [more]., disadvantage, prejudice, drawback., disaster, accident, casualty; mishap (misfortune) [more]; bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin (destruction) [more]; adversity [more]., mental suffering [more]., [Evil spirit] demon [more]., [Cause of evil] bane [more]., [Production of evil] badness [more]; painfulness [more]; evildoer [more]., outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation [more]; grievance, crying evil.
-verbs
be in trouble (adversity) [more].
-adjectives
disastrous, bad [more]; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.
-adverbs
amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost
-phrases
"moving accidents by flood and field" [Othello]
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| Antonyms: | good |
| Main Entry: | baleful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing |
| Synonyms: | calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful |
| Notes: | something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, auspicious, favorable, good, helping, promising |
| Main Entry: | baneful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruinous, injurious |
| Synonyms: | baleful, calamitous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, disastrous, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, venomous, wicked, malefic, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, fortunate, helpful, lucky, beneficient |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bane, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe, blot on the landscape, fungus, infestation |
| Antonyms: | blessing, boon, health, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | catty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, malicious |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, evil, hateful, ill-natured, malevolent, mean, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, fault, felony, hit, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, transgression, trespass, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, antisocial behavior, criminality, delict, delictum, evil behavior, fast one, illegality, immorality, malefaction, tort, unlawful act |
| Antonyms: | good deed, kindness |
| Main Entry: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked, brutish, demoniac, hard-hearted, inhumane, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| Main Entry: | damaging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful to reputation |
| Synonyms: | bad, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, prejudicial, ruinous, nocent |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, favorable, helpful |
| Main Entry: | decadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perversion; deterioration of morality |
| Synonyms: | corruption, debasement, decay, decline, degeneracy, degradation, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, declension, degeneration, devolution, gluttony, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | humility, morality |
| Main Entry: | decadent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, self-indulgent |
| Synonyms: | debased, debauched, decaying, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, evil, immoral, lost, moribund, perverted, wanton, wicked, declining, gone bad, gone to the dogs, overripe |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, good, humble, kind, moral |
| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disfigurement, distortion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, buckle, contortion, corruption, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, injury, irregularity, knot, malformation, ugliness, warp, asymmetry, crookedness, grossness, hideousness, impairment, malconformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness |
| Antonyms: | beauty, grace, shapeliness |
| Main Entry: | degradation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity, shame |
| Synonyms: | abasement, debasement, decadence, decline, degeneracy, deterioration, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, evil, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, perversion, reduction, degeneration, demotion, derogation, downgrading |
| Antonyms: | admiration, approval, elevation, honor, promotion, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | depraved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, immoral |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bad, base, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dirty*, dissolute, evil, fast*, filthy*, kinky*, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, profligate, putrid, rotten, shameless, sinful, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, wanton, wicked, dirty-minded, flagitous, gone to the dogs, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, just, moral, noble, pure, upright, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depravity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption, immorality |
| Synonyms: | baseness, contamination, debasement, debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, evil, iniquity, lewdness, perversion, vice, wickedness, abandonment, criminality, depravation, licentiousness, profligacy, sensuality, sinfulness, viciousness, vitiation |
| Antonyms: | good, honor, justice, morality, nobility, purity, uprightness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | detrimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damaging, disadvantageous |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, deleterious, destructive, disturbing, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful, profitable |
| Main Entry: | devilish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wicked |
| Synonyms: | accursed, atrocious, bad, cursed, damnable, demonic, detestable, diabolic, diabolical, evil, execrable, fiendish, hellish, infernal, inhuman, iniquitous, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, villainous, Mephistophelian, brutish, cloven-footed, demoniac, hellborn |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | dissolute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking restraint, indulgent |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, corrupt, debauched, degenerate, depraved, dissipated, evil, fast*, fast and loose, intemperate, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, loose*, open, player*, profligate, raffish, rakish, reprobate, slack, swift, unprincipled, unrestrained, vicious, wanton, wayward, wicked, wild, gone bad, high living, in the fast lane, night owl, nighthawk, on the take, sybaritic, unconstrained |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, moral, pure, resolute, respectful, virtuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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