Adjective evil has 4 senses
  1. evil, wicked - morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
    Antonyms: good, angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted, beneficent, benevolent, gracious, white, worthy, goody-goody, redemptive, redeeming, saving
  2. depraved, evil, vicious - having the nature of vice
    Antonym: virtuous (indirect, via wicked)
  3. evil, harmful, injurious - tending to cause great harm
    Antonyms: benign, benignant (indirect, via malign)
  4. malefic, malevolent, malign, evil - having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
    Antonym: beneficent (indirect, via maleficent)
,Noun evil has 3 senses
  1. evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity - morally objectionable behavior
    --1 is a kind of transgression, evildoing
    --1 has particulars:
     deviltry, devilry; foul play; irreverence, violation; sexual immorality
  2. evil - that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
    --2 is a kind of
    bad, badness
    --2 has particulars: Four Horsemen
  3. evil, evilness - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
    --3 is a kind of immorality
    Antonyms: good, goodness
    --3 has particulars:
     malevolence, malevolency, malice; malignity, malignancy, malignance; maleficence, mischief, balefulness; worst; nefariousness, wickedness, vileness; reprehensibility; villainy, villainousness; perversity; error, wrongdoing; frailty, vice
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