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evil

• (a) morally bad or wrong
  • evil purposes
  • an evil influence
  • evil deeds
• (s) having the nature of vice vicious,
• (s) having or exerting a malignant influence
  • malevolent stars
  • a malefic force
  malefic, malevolent, malign,

Nouns

• (n) morally objectionable behavior wickedness, immorality, iniquity,
• (n) 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
• (n) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
  • attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world
  evilness,

Synonyms

wickedness immorality iniquity vicious malefic malevolent malign evilness

Antonyms

good goodness

See also

bad immoral offensive unrighteous wicked wrong

Words of close approximity