Evil

Adjective

 * 1) Intending to harm; malevolent.
 * 2) Morally corrupt.
 * 3) Unpleasant.

Noun

 * 1) The forces/behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. Evil generally seeks own benefit at the expense of others and is based on general malevolence.
 * 2) Any particular individual or state which may follow these forces or behaviors.

Adjectives for Evil
once-abounding; attendant; besetting; multiplied (pi); alleged; cave-keeping; substantial; dreadful; terrible; secret; manifest; necessary; infinite; inevitable; heaviest; familiar; scandalous; restless; trifling; unseen; remediable; impending; incalculable; desperate; unsubduable; imminent; weak-headed; manifold (pi); partial; temporary;crying; accursed; ominous; future; thirsty; iniquitous; imaginary; approaching; unavoidable; abstract; moral; fixed; ruthless; necessary; human; accumulated; insidious; immeasurable.

Verbs for Evil
abhor—; abolish—; abstain from—; aggravate—; alleviate—; ameliorate—; atone for—; avoid—; banish—; beset by—; besmirch with—; blind to—; breed—; cast out—; combat—; compensate for—; cope with—; counteract—; counterbalance—; cure—; deliver from—; denounce—; deplore—; dispose to—; dwell in—; effect—; eradicate—; evince—; exempt from—; fortify against—; imply—; insinuate—; intend—; intensify—; lapse into—; loathe—; master—; mitigate—; overcome—; persist in—; personify—; promote—; punish—; repent—; stir up—; strike at—; submit to—; suffer—; symbolize—; tackle—; tempt with—; uncover—; unite against—; uproot—; —be¬falls; —degrades; —menaces; expose to—; resist—.

Adverbs for Evil
cruelly; flagrantly; hatefully; dangerously; mischievously; violently; irretrievably; inconceivably; poisonously; viciously;  iniquitously; shamefully; incredibly; brutally;  incorrigibly; atrociously; infernally; shockingly; woefully; sadly; villainously; irremediably; scandalously; manifestly; openly; avowedly; exceptionally; obnoxiously; disastrously; detestably; diabolically; perniciously; basely; irrevocably; horribly.

Synonyms for Evil

 * (adjective) nefarious, malicious, malevolent
 * (noun) ill, harm, mischief, depravity, wickedness, sin, misfortune, corruption, crime, sinfulness, badness, immorality, vice, vileness, baseness, malignity, hatred, scandal, sorrow, woe, viciousness, calamity, wrong, pollution, contamination, depravation, lewdness, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, lustfulness, obscenity, profligacy.

Antonyms for Evil
respect, decency, reputation, nobleness, purity, wholesomeness, integrity, honesty, renown, esteem, chastity, justice, sinlessness, repute, fame, credit, estimation, worth, respectability, character, merit.
 * (adjective) good
 * (noun) goodness, virtue, honor, uprightness, rectitude,

Derived terms

 * evil eye
 * evil laugh
 * evil laughter
 * evilly


 * evil-minded
 * Evil One
 * evil twin
 * evilness

Derived terms

 * axis of evil
 * evildoer
 * king's evil


 * lesser evil
 * poll evil

Thesaurus
awful, backsliding, bad, badness, baleful, bane, baneful, base, baseness, befoulment, besetment, bitchy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blight, bodeful, boding, bother, breach, bugbear, burden, calamitous, calamity, can of worms, carnality, cataclysm, catastrophe, catastrophic, catty, corrupt, corruption, crime, crime against humanity, criminal, criminality, crooked, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, damaging, damnable, dark, deadly, deadly sin, death, debt, defilement, degeneracy, degradation, deleterious, delinquency, delinquent, depraved, depravity, dereliction, despiteful, despoliation, destruction, destructive, detriment, detrimental, deviant, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, diabolism, difficult, dire, dirty, disadvantage, disagreeable, disaster, disastrous, disease, disgrace, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable, distasteful, doomful, dreadful, dreary, enormity, error, evil nature, evil-minded, evil-starred, evildoing, evilness, execrable, failure, fateful, fault, felonious, felony, fetid, flagitious, flagitiousness, flagrant, foreboding, foul, foulness, genocide, ghastly, gloomy, great ado, grievance, grisly, guilty act, hard, hardly the thing, harm, harmful, hateful, havoc, headache, heavy sin, heinous, heinousness, hideous, horrible, horrid, hurt, hurtful, ignominious, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, illegal, immoral, immorality, improper, impropriety, impurity, inaccurate, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenience, incorrect, indecorous, indiscretion, inexpedient, inexpiable sin, infamous, infamy, infection, infelicitous, inferior, infliction, iniquitous, iniquity, injurious, injury, injustice, insidious, invalid, knavery, knavish, lapse, lethal, loathsome, low, lowering, malefaction, malefic, maleficence, maleficent, malevolent, malfeasance, malign, malignant, malum, matter, menacing, mephitic, minor wrong, mischief, mischievous, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misery, misfeasance, misfortune, monstrous, moral delinquency, mortal sin, nasty, naughty, nefarious, nefariousness, nemesis, nonfeasance, not done, not the thing, noxious, obliquity, obscene, of evil portent, off-base, off-color, offense, offensive, ominous, omission, open wound, out-of-line, outrage, pain, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, peccant, peck of troubles, perfidious, pernicious, pest, pestilence, pestilential, plague, poison, poisonous, pollution, portending, portentous, problem, prodigality, profligacy, putrid, rancorous, rank, recidivism, repellent, reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ruin, ruinous, running sore, sacrilegious, satanism, scandal, scandalous, scourge, sea of troubles, shame, shameful, shameless, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful, sinful act, sinfulness, sinister, slip, somber, sorrow, spiteful, stinking, suffering, terrible, the worst, thorn, threatening, torment, tort, toxic, toxin, traitorous, transgression, treacherous, trespass, trip, trouble, trying, turpitude, ugly, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, underhanded, undue, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, ungodliness, ungoodness, unhealthy, unkind, unlawful, unlucky, unmorality, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprincipled, unpromising, unpropitious, unrighteous, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unscrupulous, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unsuitable, untoward, unutterable sin, unvirtuousness, unworthy, venial sin, venom, vexation, vice, vicious, viciousness, vile, vileness, villainous, villainy, virulent, visitation, wantonness, waywardness, wicked, wickedness, woe, woeful, worry, wrathful, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful, Loki, Nemesis, Set, Typhon, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abomination, accursed, ado, affliction, agony, amorality, angry, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity,

Etymology
yfel, from (compare East Frisian eeuwel:, Dutch euvel:, German übel:), from  *h2/3upélos, diminutive of h2/3u̯op 'treat badly' (compare  huwappi 'to mistreat, harass', huwappa 'evil, badness').

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Basque: gaizto
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 邪惡的, 邪恶的, 壞的, 坏的
 * Coptic:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ond, slem, slet, dårlig, skadelig
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Faroese: óndur, óreinur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ბოროტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Haitian Creole: move, mechan
 * Hebrew:, מרושע
 * Hindi: दुष्ट (duṣṭa), बुरा (burā), पापी (pāpī)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: illur, ill illt; vondur, vond, vont; slæmur, slæm, slæmt
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: mal, malefic
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: қастық
 * Latgalian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: mal, malefic
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: қастық
 * Latgalian:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latgalian:


 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian: ļauns (1)
 * Limburgish: kwaod, euvel
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:, slem
 * Ojibwe:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: مضر
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: mau, má , maléfico , maléfica , ruim (1,2)
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: olc, aingidheachd , urchaid , truaighe
 * Serbian: зао, зла, зло
 * Slovak:, ,
 * Spanish:, , , malévolo, maléfico, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: దుష్ట (dushTa), దెయ్యం (deyyam)
 * Tupinambá: poxy
 * Turkish: kötücül, şeytani,
 * Visayan: demonyo
 * Volapük: badik
 * Turkish: kötücül, şeytani,
 * Visayan: demonyo
 * Volapük: badik


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:


 * Dutch:
 * Volapük: badik

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: չարություն,
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 邪惡, 邪恶, ,
 * Croatian: zlo
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, ondskab
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: malbono
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Italian: male
 * Japanese: 邪悪,
 * Kazakh: қастық


 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:, ondskap
 * Persian: بدی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, лихо, худо
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зло
 * Roman: zlo
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, лихо
 * Volapük: bad
 * West Frisian:

Anagrams

 * Levi
 * live
 * veil
 * vile
 * vlei