evil

1. Morally bad or wrong (synset 301134543)
   "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
   also:

   • bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
   • immoral - deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
   • offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
   • wrong - contrary to conscience or morality or law
   • unrighteous - not righteous
   • wicked - morally bad in principle or practice
   tells us about: evil, evilness - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
   similar to:

   • atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous - shockingly brutal or cruel
   • bad - characterized by wickedness or immorality
   • black, dark, sinister - stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
   • corruptive, perversive, pestiferous - tending to corrupt or pervert
   • demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy - extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
   • despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched - morally reprehensible
   • devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian - showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
   • evil-minded - having evil thoughts or intentions
2. Having the nature of vice (synset 302524157)
   similar to: wicked - morally bad in principle or practice
   same as: vicious
3. Having or exerting a malignant influence (synset 300226107)
   "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
   similar to: maleficent - harmful or evil in intent or effect
   same as: malefic, malevolent, malign

1. Morally objectionable behavior (synset 100746935)
   is a type of: evildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
   subtypes:

   • devilry, deviltry - wicked and cruel behavior
   • foul play - unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence)
   • irreverence, violation - a disrespectful act
   • sexual immorality - the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions
   same as: immorality, iniquity, wickedness
2. That which causes harm or destruction or misfortune (synset 105151910)
   "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"
   is a type of: bad, badness - that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
   subtypes: four horsemen - (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse
3. The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice (synset 104859319)
   "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
   tells us about: evil - morally bad or wrong
   is a type of: immorality - the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct
   subtypes:

   • malevolence, malevolency, malice - the quality of threatening evil
   • malignance, malignancy, malignity - quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
   • balefulness, maleficence, mischief - the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
   • worst - the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable
   • nefariousness, ugliness, vileness, wickedness - the quality of being wicked
   • reprehensibility - being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof
   • villainousness, villainy - the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior
   • perverseness, perversity - deliberately deviating from what is good
   • error, wrongdoing - departure from what is ethically acceptable
   • frailty, vice - moral weakness
   same as: evilness

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