evil
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[ˈiːvɪl] [ˈiːvəl] [-iːvəl] 
US WEvil
- See also: Evil (disambiguation) and Good and evil.
- Evil, in a general context, is taken as the absence or complete opposite of that which is ascribed as being good. Often, evil is used to denote profound immorality. In certain religious contexts, evil has been described as a supernatural force.
- In cultures with Manichaean and Abrahamic religious influence, evil is usually perceived as the dualistic antagonistic opposite of good, in which good should prevail and evil should be defeated.
- The philosophical question of whether morality is absolute, relative, or illusory leads to questions about the nature of evil, with views falling into one of four opposed camps: moral absolutism, amoralism, moral relativism, and moral universalism.
- NounPLevils
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.
- OBS A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- AdjectiveCOMevillerCOMevilerCOMmore evilSUPevillestSUPevilestSUPmost evil
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
- Morally corrupt.
- an evil plot to kill innocent people
- Unpleasant.
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- OBS Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
- (computing, programming) SLA undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
- Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- As Mother Jones goes to press, the masked, web-slinging wall-crawler is busy foiling a computer technician's evil designs to brainwash people through subliminal advertising in video games.
- H. Richard's refusal to ontologize evil is theologically correct.
- If it weren't for your heroic deed, his evil plan would have fallen into place.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of evil in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
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Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "evil" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.