| 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, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, no good, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, rancorous, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong |
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, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Concept: | Evil. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
Synonyms: |
-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)., disadvantage, prejudice, drawback., disaster, accident, casualty; mishap (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin (destruction); adversity., mental suffering., [Evil spirit] demon [more]., [Cause of evil] bane [more]., [Production of evil] badness [more]; painfulness; evildoer., outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.
-verbs
-adjectives
disastrous, bad; 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 |
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| Main Entry: | abomination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object of extreme dislike, hate |
Synonyms: |
anathema, aversion, bother, curse, detestation, evil, horror, nuisance, plague, shame, torment |
Antonyms: |
beauty, blessing, delight, enjoyment, esteem, joy, love, treat |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action |
Synonyms: |
abomination, barbarity, brutality, crime, enormity, evil, horror, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, monstrosity, offense, outrage, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness, wrong |
Antonyms: |
kindness, pleasantness |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral |
Synonyms: |
base, corrupt, criminal, delinquent, evil, iniquitous, mean, reprobate, sinful, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
good, honest, just, reputable, right, true, virtuous |
| 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 |
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, malefic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous, wicked |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, beneficial, beneficient, fortunate, helpful, lucky |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe |
Antonyms: |
blessing, boon, health, prosperity |