Thesaurus:evil
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Sense: intending to harm[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- abandoned [⇒ thesaurus]
- arrant (dated)
- bad [⇒ thesaurus]
- bad apple
- bad seed
- baleful
- baneful
- base
- dark [⇒ thesaurus]
- deleterious
- depraved
- despicable [⇒ thesaurus]
- detrimental
- devilish
- diabolical
- evil
- flagitious (literary)
- harmful [⇒ thesaurus]
- ill-intentioned
- ill-natured
- immoral [⇒ thesaurus]
- incorrigible
- iniquitous
- iniquous (obsolete)
- injurious
- knavish
- malefic
- maleficent
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- nefarious
- niddering (archaic)
- nidering (archaic)
- niding (archaic)
- nithing (archaic)
- no-good
- pernicious
- reprehensible
- reprobate
- satanic
- scathful
- sinful
- sinister
- ungodly
- unholy
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- wrong
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Further reading[edit]
- “619. evil” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “evil” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.