Usually means: Intentional harm, morally reprehensible actions.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!) Easter eggs (New!)
We found 40 dictionaries that define the word evil:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. evil: Merriam-Webster
  2. evil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. evil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. evil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. evil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Evil, evil: Wordnik
  7. evil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. evil: Wiktionary
  9. evil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. evil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. evil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Evil, evil: Dictionary.com
  13. evil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. evil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EVIL, Evil (Dove Cameron song), Evil (Howlin' Wolf song), Evil (Interpol song), Evil (Ladytron song), Evil (TV series), Evil (band), Evil (disambiguation), Evil (novel), Evil (wrestler), Evil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Evil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. evil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. evil: Rhymezone
  19. evil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. evil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. evil: FreeDictionary.org
  22. evil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. evil: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. evil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. evil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evil: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. evil: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. evil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. EVIL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. evil: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. evil, evil, evil, evil, evil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. evil: ESL Slang page
  3. E.V.I.L, the Evil: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See eviler as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Intending to harm; malevolent.
adjective:  Morally corrupt.
adjective:  Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
adjective:  Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
adjective:  (computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
noun:  Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
noun:  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.
noun:  (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
adverb:  (obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
adverb:  (obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
adverb:  (obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark purple,     blood red,     midnight blue, more...



Word origin

Words similar to evil

Usage examples for evil

Idioms related to evil

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing evil

Popular nouns described by evil

Words that often appear near evil

Rhymes of evil

Invented words related to evil

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark purple,     blood red,     midnight blue, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.



List phrases that spell out evil 




Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux