Another word for evil
evil
modif.
Morally bad
immoral, wicked, sinful, corrupt, diabolical, satanic, sinister, heinous, atrocious, monstrous, loathsome, foul, repugnant, despicable, malevolent, malignant; see also wicked 1.
Unpropitious
destructive, calamitous, disastrous; see harmful, ominous, sinister. See syn. study at wicked.
evil
n.
The quality of being evil
sin, wickedness, depravity, crime, sinfulness, corruption, vice, immorality, iniquity, knavery, perversity, badness, villainy, vileness, baseness, meanness, infamy, heinousness, enormity, criminality, nefariousness, malignity, impiety, malevolence, viciousness, wrong, degeneracy, debauchery, decadence, looseness, lewdness, licentiousness, dissoluteness, wantonness, grossness, turpitude, wrongdoing, darkness, foulness, degradation, worm in the apple, the devil within one, obscenity, profligacy, devilry, diabolism, fiendishness.
A harmful or malicious action
ill, harm, injury, damage, mischief, misfortune, wrong, scandal, calamity, pollution, contamination, catastrophe, blow, disaster, plague, curse, outrage, atrocity, abomination, foul play, ill wind*, crying shame*, machinations of the Devil*.
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Another word for evil
Morally objectionable:
bad, black, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong. See rightCausing harm or injury:
bad, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous. See helpBringing, predicting, or characterized by misfortune:
bad, ill, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpropitious. See luckCharacterized by intense ill will or spite:
black, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean2, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. (Slang) bitchy. See attitude
That which is morally bad or objectionable:
iniquity, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong. See rightA wicked act or wicked behavior:
crime, deviltry, diablerie, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing. See rightWhatever is destructive or harmful:
bad, badness, ill. See helpA cause of suffering or harm:
affliction, bane, curse, ill, plague, scourge, woe. See help
MLA Style
"evil." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 22 February 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/evil>.
APA Style
evil. (n.d.). Retrieved February 22nd, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/evil
