evil
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
evil/ˈiːvl/
▶adjective
- 1 extremely wicked and immoral.
■ embodying or associated with the forces of the devil.
■ harmful or tending to harm.
- 2 extremely unpleasant: an evil smell.
■ something harmful or undesirable: social evils.
– phrases
the evil eye a gaze or stare superstitiously believed to cause harm.
the Evil One archaic the Devil.
speak evil of slander.
the evil eye a gaze or stare superstitiously believed to cause harm.
the Evil One archaic the Devil.
speak evil of slander.
– derivatives
evilly adverb,
evilness noun.
evilly adverb,
evilness noun.
– origin OE yfel, of Gmc origin.
'evil' also found in these Oxford entries:
absit omen
- amulet
- anathema
- apotropaic
- Armageddon
- asura
- badmash
- bale
- black magic
- blaspheme
- bogey
- bogeyman
- boggart
- cancer
- church
- corrupt
- croak
- dark
- Davy Jones's locker
- defame
- demon
- demoniac
- demonic
- denounce
- deprecate
- deva
- devil
- devilish
- diary
- dismal
- ditheism
- doli capax
- doli incapax
- dualism
- duende
- evildoer
- exorcize
- fell
- fiend
- fons et origo
- forfend
- ghoul
- hell
- ill
- imp
- imprecation
- Jekyll
- jumbie
- king's evil
