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See definition of evil on Dictionary.com
  • adj.sinful, immoral
  • nounbadness, immorality; disaster

synonyms for evil

  • bad
  • corrupt
  • destructive
  • hateful
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • nefarious
  • ugly
  • unpleasant
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wicked
  • base
  • foul
  • low
  • offensive
  • poison
  • reprobate
  • wrong
  • angry
  • atrocious
  • baneful
  • beastly
  • calamitous
  • damnable
  • depraved
  • disastrous
  • execrable
  • flagitious
  • harmful
  • iniquitous
  • injurious
  • loathsome
  • maleficent
  • malignant
  • no good
  • obscene
  • pernicious
  • rancorous
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • spiteful
  • stinking
  • unpropitious
  • wrathful
See also synonyms for: evilly / evilness / evils
On this page you'll find 331 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to evil, such as: bad, corrupt, destructive, hateful, heinous, and hideous.

antonyms for evil

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  • agreeable
  • aiding
  • assisting
  • attractive
  • beautiful
  • benevolent
  • decent
  • delightful
  • friendly
  • gentle
  • good
  • helpful
  • honest
  • honorable
  • kind
  • lovely
  • nice
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • right
  • upright
  • virtuous
  • wonderful
  • worthy
  • moral
  • auspicious
  • sinless
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Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Ill now appears mainly in certain fixed expressions, with a milder implication than that in evil: ill will; ill-natured. Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits. 

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For anaerobic life, which does not use oxygen, “phosphine is not so evil,” Sousa-Silva says.
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Quasimodo has been brought up by an evil politician who’s confined him his entire life within the borders of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
TOWARD A QUEER DISNEY CANONEMILY VANDERWERFFSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOX
With a series of toy models, the researchers calculated that the biased cosmic ray particles were ever-so-slightly more likely to knock an electron loose from a “live” helix than from an “evil” one, an event that theoretically causes mutations.
COSMIC RAYS MAY EXPLAIN LIFE’S BIAS FOR RIGHT-HANDED DNACHARLIE WOODJUNE 29, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
A world of women is a world of people, still, with full human capacity for good or evil.
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The pursuit of a favorable credit score to secure commercial loans for our cars and homes has been viewed as a necessary evil.
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Stories like Maleficent, for instance, based on the evil godmother from Sleeping Beauty.
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He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.
The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
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Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man.
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All felt strangely as if something evil had crept into their lives, and their excitement was great.
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WORDS RELATED TO EVIL

  • can of worms
  • confusion
  • evil
  • hornet's nest
  • ill
  • snake in the grass
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